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Dutch trade unions and religious organisations have joined forces to campaign against Sunday trading.
They launched their campaign on Tuesday in De Banne, a small neighbourhood shopping centre in the north of Amsterdam, where shops are still closed on Sundays – and their owners like to keep it that way.

Until the mid 1990s, all shops in the Netherlands had to remain closed on Sundays, but legislation introduced in 1996 changed all that. Shops were allow… Continue

Source: RNW Radio Netherlands Worldwide
By Arwen van Grafhorst

Many emigrants try their hand at writing a book about their new life in a foreign country, but few of them ever make it onto the bookshop shelves. Is there a market for expat books? And if so, how do you go about writing one that sells?

“If you think, I’ll go abroad, write a book about it, and get rich, you’re in for a disappointment.” Jack van de Vliert of publisher De… Continue

The method of paying to travel on Dutch public transport is changing. In place of the old-fashioned paper tickets, a system using a high-tech travel card (known in Dutch as the OV-chipkaart) is being phased in across the country. Its main advantage to the consumer is that it’s an integrated system th… Continue