2025 in the Netherlands
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Events from the year 2025 in the Netherlands.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 22 January – The District Court of The Hague orders the government to meet its own goals for reducing overall nitrogen emissions by 2030 or pay a 10 million euro ($10.4 million) fine to Greenpeace.[1]
- 25 January – The Dacian-era Helmet of Coțofenești, on loan from the National History Museum of Romania, is stolen along with three other gold artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen by thieves who break into the museum using explosives.[2]
February
[edit]- 19 February – The Netherlands agrees to repatriate 119 artefacts from the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, including some of the Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria.[3]
- 21 February – A medical student identified as Fouad Lakhlili is sentenced to life imprisonment for killing three people in the 2023 Rotterdam shootings.[4]
March
[edit]- 16 March – The historic Wilhelminatoren collapses in Valkenburg aan de Geul.[5]
- 27 March – 2025 Amsterdam stabbing attack: A Ukrainian national injures a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man with American nationality, a 26-year-old man with Polish nationality, a 73-year-old Belgian woman and a 19-year-old Dutch woman in the Sint Nicolaasstraat area in the vicinity of Dam Square in central Amsterdam.[6]
- 31 March – The Caribbean guilder replaces the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.[7]
Predicted and scheduled events
[edit]- 24–26 June – 2025 The Hague summit[8][9]
- 27 November–14 December – 2025 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany and the Netherlands[10][11]
Holidays
[edit]Source:[12]
- 1 January - New Year's Day
- 18 April - Good Friday
- 20 April - Easter Sunday
- 21 April - Easter Monday
- 27 April - King's Day
- 5 May - Liberation Day
- 29 May - Ascension Day
- 8–9 June - Pentecost
- 25 December - Christmas Day
- 26 December – Boxing Day
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Television
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Dutch court orders government to meet pollution reduction targets or face millions in fines". AP News. 22 January 2025.
- ^ "Theft in Netherlands of ancient golden helmet leaves Romania distraught". AP News. 28 January 2025.
- ^ "The Netherlands agrees to return more than 100 artifacts to Nigeria looted during colonial times". AP News. 20 February 2025.
- ^ "Dutch court gives life sentence to Rotterdam hospital shooter". France 24. 21 February 2025.
- ^ Koeyvoets, Christa (16 March 2025). "Valkenburgse Wilhelminatoren ingestort, oorzaak nog onduidelijk". L1 Nieuws (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ^ "5 wounded in stabbing in Amsterdam, 1 person arrested". AP News. 27 March 2025.
- ^ "New monetary era: make way for the Caribbean florin". Faxinfo. 4 April 2025.
- ^ Brouwers, Arnout (11 July 2023). "Navo houdt Oekraïne voorlopig aan het lijntje, Zelensky reageert gefrustreerd" [NATO keeps Ukraine in suspense, Zelensky is frustrated]. de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "The Netherlands to host 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague". NATO (Press release). 24 May 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". IHF. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ^ ""Catch the dream" at the 2025 IHF Women's World Championship, as Final venue is announced ". International Handball Federation. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
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