Subsidizing astrologers for job seekers raises eyebrows
Unlikely problems will get you unlikely bed fellows: Dutch parliament is divided across traditional ideological lines and across the current government opposition division over astrology and talking to...
View ArticleDutch don’t trust government and then some
Compared to other countries, the Dutch don’t trust institutions like parliament, the government, the media, justice and large companies. Sounds healthy so far. Sijbren Cnossen, guest researcher at the...
View ArticleComics are mostly forbidden in government publications
According to the 2009 Guidelines for Photography and Illustrations of the Dutch government (PDF, Dutch), the government should not use comics in its publications. The government wants to communicate in...
View ArticleDutch word of 2010 qualifies unusual minority government
The Dutch word of the year, according to Dutch dictionary Van Dale (a Dutch-Belgian joint publication), is ‘gedoogregering’, a government (‘-regering’) (albeit it a minority government this time) with...
View Article2012 government budget hack explained
Ha ha! As Dutch News reports: The government’s 2012 spending plans have been leaked on the internet, a day ahead of their official publication. A spokesman for the finance ministry has confirmed the...
View ArticleJournalistic portraits of photojournalists
Hebbediekiek is a web site of six photojournalists in The Hague (the seat of government of the Netherlands) that publish action shots taken of their colleagues. It’s basically them zooming out a...
View ArticleDigiNotar hacker came in through front door
In 2011 Dutch web certificate company DigiNotar was compromised completely by an Iranian hacker, and a report released this week details how it was done. The report, written by security auditors Fox-IT...
View ArticleDutch state lottery open to abuse; state tipped off lottery about investigation
The Greek firm that runs the lottery for Staatsloterij (the Dutch state lottery) is susceptible to fraud, Volkskrant writes. Several former employees of the company, called Intralot, told the newspaper...
View ArticleGoogle, KLM and government favourites with Dutch students
Swedish marketing agency Universum has been polling Dutch students on who they want to work for after graduation. A whopping 12,000 students from 32 universities and polytechnics were asked about their...
View ArticleGovernment subsidies for psychics training under fire
Back in 2011 the Dutch government already fought over subsidizing astrologers for job seekers, and now companies offering to train ‘psychics’ are under scrutiny. The contested training is geared...
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