18-10-2011Article
Inflation on St Eustatius rose to 11.2 percent in the third quarter of 2011. On Bonaire inflation was with 5.9 percent also higher than in the second quarter. On Saba inflation decreased to 6.6 percent.
06-09-2011Web magazine
The coalition agreement stipulates that cannabis coffee shops must be located at a distance of at least 350 metres from the nearest school. Last year, 58 coffee shops in the Netherlands were located within a distance of 350 metres from a secondary school, i.e. 9 percent of all coffee shops.
05-08-2011Article
Inflation on the islands making up the Dutch Caribbean was substantially higher in the second quarter of 2011 than in the first quarter. The rate was highest on St Eustatius, at 10.5 percent, up from 7.0 percent in the first quarter.
04-08-2011Web magazine
The 20 National Landscape conservation areas in the Netherlands cover nearly 900 thousand hectares, i.e. more than 20 percent of the total Dutch land area.
13-07-2011Web magazine
The Netherlands is still an agricultural country, if land use is taken into account.
07-07-2011Web magazine
The average distance to the nearest after-school care facility was 900 metres in the Netherlands in 2010.
31-05-2011Web magazine
21-04-2011Press release
The Dutch provinces realised economic growth in 2010 after the 2009 slump.
22-02-2011Web magazine
In 2011, the provincial budget for public transport amounts to 944 million euro, nearly twice as much as in 2005. In the province of North Brabant, the budget for 2011 is more than four times as high as in 2005; in the province of Zeeland the budget was slightly lower.
15-02-2011Web magazine
On average, people in the Netherlands lived 5.1 kilometres (km) away from the nearest railway station in 2008.
15-02-2011Web magazine
The provincial road maintenance budget amounts to 1.2 billion euro in 2011, i.e. more than one and a half times as high as in 2005.
04-01-2011Web magazine
On 1 January 2011, there were 418 municipalities in the Netherlands versus 431 on 1 January 2010. This downward trend has been going on for many years; the aim of reducing the number of municipalities is to strengthen the administrative power at the municipal level.
