Femke Halsema is a Dutch politician and filmmaker. On 27 June 2018,she was appointed Mayor of Amsterdam and began serving a six-year term on 12 July 2018. She is the first woman to hold the position on a non-interim basis. She previously was a member of the House of Representatives for the leftist green party,GroenLinks from 1998 to 2011,and served as the party's parliamentary leader from 2002 to 2010.
Emma Eleonora (Esmé) Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink is a former Dutch politician. As a member of the ChristianUnion (ChristenUnie) she was an MP from 1 March 2007 to 19 September 2012. She focused on matters of the European Union,public health,welfare,sports,spatial planning and natural environment.
Fritz Korbach was a German professional football player and manager. He was particularly well known in the Netherlands,where he served eleven different teams,including FC Wageningen,FC Zwolle,FC Volendam,FC Twente,SC Cambuur,Go Ahead Eagles,SC Heerenveen,De Graafschap,Heracles Almelo,Sparta Rotterdam,Rohda Raalte and Harkemase Boys.
National Police Corps,colloquially in English as Dutch National Police or National Police Force,is divided in ten regional units,two national units,the police academy,police services center,and national dispatch center cooperation. The law-enforcement purposes of these agencies are the investigation of suspected criminal activity,referral of the results of investigations to the courts,and the temporary detention of suspected criminals pending judicial action. Law enforcement agencies,to varying degrees at different levels of government and in different agencies,are also commonly charged with the responsibilities of deterring criminal activity and preventing the successful commission of crimes in progress. The police commissioner in the Netherlands is Janny Knol since March 1,2024.
The Dutch Caribbean Police Force is the law enforcement agency of the Caribbean Netherlands.
Sippie Catharine "Sisca" Folkertsma is a Dutch footballer who plays as a forward for Dutch Vrouwen Eredivisie club Feyenoord and the Netherlands national team.
Cheyenne van den Goorbergh is a Dutch professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Eredivisie club Feyenoord.
The 2019–20 Eredivisie was the 64th season of the Dutch football league Eredivisie since its establishment in 1955. The season began on 2 August 2019 and was suspended on 12 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. The season was abandoned on 24 April.
The 2019–20 Eredivisie was suspended on 12 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands and was abandoned on 24 April 2020.
The 2020–21 Eredivisie was the 65th season of the Eredivisie since its establishment in 1955. The season began on 12 September 2020 and concluded on 16 May 2021.
The 2021 Dutch curfew riots were a series of riots in the Netherlands that initiated as protests against the government's COVID-19 prevention measures and specifically the 21:00–4:30 curfew that was introduced on 23 January 2021. The police have described the riots as the worst in the country since the 1980 coronation riots.
This is a list of the main association football rivalries in the Netherlands.
Protests against COVID-19 in the Netherlands were a series of protests and riots in the Netherlands against the government COVID-19 prevention measures,which were in force between 27 January 2020 and 20 May 2022,with travel restrictions lifted on 17 September 2022. The protests came to a head with the 2021 Dutch curfew riots in response to a nationwide night-time curfew between 23 January and 28 April 2021. Since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands,a number of anti-lockdown protest groups and individual protesters have shifted their attention to the ongoing,largely concurrent Dutch farmers' protests against government legislation to limit agricultural pollution by downsizing livestock production.
The 2023–24 Eredivisie was the 68th season of Eredivisie,the premier football competition in the Netherlands. It began on 11 August 2023 and concluded on 19 May 2024. PSV Eindhoven broke the record for most points in an Eredivisie season,with 91,overtaking Ajax's 89-point season in 1997–98.
The 2024–25 Eredivisie is the ongoing 69th season of Eredivisie,the premier football competition in the Netherlands. It began on 9 August 2024 and will conclude on 1 June 2025.
