To combat drug tourism, the city of Amsterdam is set to reconsider banning tourists from visiting coffeeshops and purchasing ...

Following next month’s local elections, a majority could emerge in Amsterdam in favour of a plan to bar tourists from coffeeshops. Experts and stakeholders remain divided. “You won’t achieve this ...

With municipal elections coming up, a shift in power could give the council the majority it needs to implement a ban on tourists in coffeeshops.

A ban on allowing tourists to access Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes is likely to be back on the city council agenda after the March 18 local elections. Since 2012, non-locals have been excluded from the ...

Amsterdam is moving to sharply curb elevated sick leave among municipal employees after absenteeism reached 9.7 percent last year, far above the national average of 6.7 percent, Mayor Femke Halsema ...

Christian churches that have come to the Netherlands from a different culture are struggling to find housing in the country.

Femke Halsema has been the Mayor of Amsterdam for nearly eight years, with her term running until 2030. She intends to reform ...

Femke Bol is set to run the first 800m race of her professional career at the World Indoor Tour Silver Meeting in Metz on Sunday, February 8. One of history's greatest 400m hurdlers is set to make a ...

If being in Europe for the first time was not a big enough culture shock, strolling through the streets of Amsterdam’s red-light district certainly did the trick. Finding myself surrounded by bicycles ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Candles flickered at dawn Tuesday at the vast Holocaust memorial in Berlin as people across Europe and beyond paused to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, ...