DutchNews Podcast

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DutchNews Podcast

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  1. The Drifting Pancakes and Terrorist Vegetables Edition - Week 24 - 2025

    4D AGO

    The Drifting Pancakes and Terrorist Vegetables Edition - Week 24 - 2025

    After a week of strategic bickering between the coalition parties, Dick Schoof brokers a deal to split the asylum ministry three ways, making it less fragmented than it was under Marjolein Faber. Amsterdam unveils a plan to get international workers to speak Dutch and get involved in community work, in the hope that the locals will follow suit. Eurostar celebrates its new expanded service in a deserted Amsterdam Central Station after NS workers go on strike again. And in football, Tijjani Reijnders and Quincy Promes are involved in big moves for very different reasons.

    1h 3m
  2. The Orange Shields For White Lions Edition - Week 23 - 2025

    JUN 6

    The Orange Shields For White Lions Edition - Week 23 - 2025

    In the most unsurprising plot twist since James Cameron's Titanic, the Dutch cabinet collapsed this week when Geert Wilders walked out in protest at his own asylum policy. With an election almost five months away, we ask if Dick Schoof's lame-duck cabinet can make more waves on defence, housing and immigration. Meanwhile, Mark Rutte has to figure out a seating plan at the Nato summit dinner that stops a food fight breaking out between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A regional train strike in Utrecht has the same impact on the network as Marjolein Faber on the asylum system. The White Lions of Telstar have a financial mountain to climb as they prepare for top-flight football for the first time since 1978. And the Rijksmuseum proudly shows off a 200-year-old tattooed contraceptive.

    1h 4m
  3. Collapse of the Cabinet - Extra Episode - Week 23 - 2025

    JUN 3

    Collapse of the Cabinet - Extra Episode - Week 23 - 2025

    Eleven months after Dick Schoof's cabinet took office and 10½ months later than expected, the Dutch cabinet has collapsed after Geert Wilders pulled out of the four-way right-wing coalition. We look at how he managed to stir up a full-scale row over immigration with three parties that agreed with him and how the other parties were left wrong footed. And we ask how voters will respond to Wilders' gamble in the upcoming elections – whenever they may be.

    50 min
  4. The Gourmet Wolves At The Circle Party From Hell Edition - Week 21 - 2025

    MAY 23

    The Gourmet Wolves At The Circle Party From Hell Edition - Week 21 - 2025

    The capital's 750th birthday celebrations get off to a chaotic start, while Ajax lose the title and their Italian coach in the space of a week. Foreign affairs minister Caspar Veldkamp has more success in Europe, forcing the EU to investigate Israel's aid blockade in Gaza. Auditors skewer the government's spending plans, while the IMF sticks the knife into the koopkrachtplaatjes. And was a motley crew of Dutch bikers and Romanian mobsters behind the Drents Museum heist?

    53 min
  5. The Trappist Monks Can't Bottle It Like Ajax Edition - Week 20 - 2025

    MAY 16

    The Trappist Monks Can't Bottle It Like Ajax Edition - Week 20 - 2025

    Pressure mounts on the Dutch cabinet to denounce Israel's destruction of Gaza, with the mayor of Amsterdam, universities and even PVV voters growing increasingly critical. Scientists warn that Donald Trump's cuts to academic research are hampering their ability to work with American colleagues. The Netherlands could face water shortages as climate change and economic pressures take their toll. No green room drama for the Dutch at Eurovision this year as Claude safely makes it through to the final. And Ajax's NSC-like disintegration sets up a grandstand finish to the Eredivisie season.

    1h 2m
  6. The Strictly Not Dancing With Wolves Edition - Week 19 - 2025

    MAY 9

    The Strictly Not Dancing With Wolves Edition - Week 19 - 2025

    Foreign minister Casper Veldkamp finally draws a red line over Israel's intervention in Gaza, but will it be the fault line that ruptures the coalition? The conflict is also the focus of protests at ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. But at least one of the coalition parties has something to celebrate, as MEPs vote to downgrade the protected status of the wolf. And the close-knit fishing community of Urk launches a scheme to find former residents who were lost at sea.

    1h 4m
  7. The Penguin Murder Mystery Edition - Week 18 - 2025

    MAY 2

    The Penguin Murder Mystery Edition - Week 18 - 2025

    As the economy cools, the cabinet burns through its green energy fund to bail out fossil fuel users and torch its climate change targets. The debate on who should be included in the May 4 commemorations flares up again as an alternative ceremony to include the victims of Gaza is condemned by some politicians. Geert Wilders claims victory as his asylum minister's policies apparently drive down refugee numbers in the whole of Europe before they've even been implemented. Indoor football is rocked by accusations of match fixing, Ajax blunder their way to the Eredivisie title and there's a suspicious death in Emmen zoo to get your teeth into.

    1h 10m
  8. The TikTok Terrorism Tango Edition - Week 17 - 2025

    APR 25

    The TikTok Terrorism Tango Edition - Week 17 - 2025

    The passing of Pope Francis managed to put the king's birthday birthday celebrations and Pieter Omtzigt's dramatic departure from politics in the shade this week. The coalition leaders emerged from a marathon negotiation session with a spring budget deal designed to please everyone except the taxpayers. Intelligence services accuse Iran of planning a botched assassination, Russia of sabotaging European elections and China of industrial espionage. And Belgian goalkeeper is the toast of Deventer as the Eagles swoop to a famous cup final victory.

    1h 5m
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  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
    369
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