Netherlands

Dutch collectively agreed pay rose 4.0% year on year in the third quarter, a slower increase than a year earlier, while inflation-adjusted growth remained positive.

Dutch retail turnover rose 3.5% in August from a year earlier, while sales volume increased 2.7%, official figures show.

The Dutch bank still expects house prices to rise next year, but more slowly as higher borrowing costs cool the market.

Police are investigating after fireworks broke two windows at a Dutch town hall on an evening when councillors discussed asylum accommodation.

Firefighters are protecting nearby buildings as a warehouse burns in western Amsterdam. Trains between Amsterdam Sloterdijk and Schiphol have stopped.

Meredith Whittaker is to be honoured by the Amsterdam university for her work on AI, privacy and digital rights.

Belgium is considering other suppliers as delays and rising costs affect a joint frigate order with the Netherlands. Its defence chief says replacements must arrive on time.

The ruling reverses a lower court’s discrimination finding and leaves a 2021 decision stripping the man of Dutch nationality in force.