All posts tagged "Netherlands"
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233Lifestyle & CultureLetícia Batista: We Brazilians we are used to living in fear … that shouldn’t make the pandemic ‘normal’
Like many other activities and services here in the Netherlands, my Dutch classes have finally started this semester’s module after a few...
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1.5KLifestyle & CultureCum laude or clown? Dispatches’ post-pandemic report card for Europe’s leaders
A pandemic is a terrific test of which countries are high-functioning societies and which are dysfunctional. Which elected officials are leaders and...
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4.3KLifestyle & CultureStaycation: Borders are closed? No problem … Jackie Harding is exploring the Netherlands
(Editor’s note: This is the first post in our Staycation series as travel is limited across parts of Europe. You can see...
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971News & BuzzSave Our Startups: Countries across Europe are creating, expanding emergency funding programs for startups hit by coronavirus
(Editor’s note: This post on coronavirus emergency funding programs for small businesses and startups is the second in a series. See Stephen Heiner’s...
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10.5KExpat EssentialsExpat Essentials: The latest on what countries across Europe are doing to stop the coronavirus pandemic (updated)
(Editor’s note: We’re closing out this post for two reasons. The first is, most countries in Europe are recovering swiftly from the...
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1.8KLifestyle & CulturePutin’s People: Russian expat ‘journalist’ depicts host Netherlands as a dystopian hellhole
One of the weirder expat phenomena are expats who’ve come to free and affluent European countries such as the Netherlands from oppressive...
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5.7KLifestyle & Culture2020 edition (updated): Dispatches’ list of the best music festivals in the Netherlands, Pt. 1
(Editor’s note: On 21 April, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that due to the pandemic, there will be no big shows...
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2.0KLifestyle & CultureTech talents and engineers: Join the Dutch Corona Mask Initiative and save lives
The Dutch are all about collaboration, and Eindhoven-based innovator Eddy Allefs is tapping deep into his immense network to solve a huge...
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1.9KLifestyle & CultureCoronavirus (updated): In the Netherlands, the real threat is the unreality of our reality
It’s weird to be in the Netherlands during the coronavirus epidemic, reading about Italy and China. Because here, little has changed outside...
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2.5KExpat EssentialsABN AMRO is the financial ‘port in the storm’ for British expats moving to the Netherlands
(Editor’s note: Jackie Harding is a British-born journalist and photographer and an ABN AMRO client.) Moving to a foreign country is overwhelming...
