10-12-2008Economic monitor
27-11-2008Web magazine
In the first three quarters of 2008, the number of orders for debt repayment pronounced by Dutch courts was nearly 40 percent down on the same period one year previously.
12-11-2008Economic monitor
11-11-2008Web magazine
30-10-2008Web magazine
The Dutch fire services received 47 reports of fires in 2007. This is 5 percent fewer than in 2006.
21-10-2008Web magazine
Trouble caused by groups of youths in the streets, drug users, inconsiderate neighbours and harassment: in 2008 one sixth of the Dutch population reported that they experienced at least one of these problems in the area where they lived.
10-10-2008Economic monitor
10-09-2008Economic monitor
02-09-2008Web magazine
At the end of June 2008, nearly 26 thousand asylumseekers in the Netherlands had been granted leave to remain in the Netherlands indefinitely based on the ‘pardon regulation’ of 2007. Most of these asylumseekers are from the former Soviet Union.
14-08-2008Web magazine
13-08-2008Economic monitor
30-07-2008Web magazine
24-07-2008Web magazine
22-07-2008Web magazine
Last year, 1.2 million crimes were registered by the police, about the same amount as in 2006.
15-07-2008Web magazine
Nearly one tenth of Dutch public transport users occasionally feel so unsafe that they opt for an alternative or prefer to stay at home.
10-07-2008Economic monitor
08-07-2008Web magazine
Young adults whose parents had been crime suspects were more often heard by the police than their peers.
01-07-2008Web magazine
Nearly 23 million euro in damages was paid to former suspects in the Netherlands in 2007. This is nearly twice as much as in 2000.
24-06-2008Web magazine
Dutch judges pronounced 32.6 thousand divorces in 2007. A total of 34.7 thousand underage children were involved in these divorces.
17-06-2008Web magazine
Nearly 2,800 debt management plans were pronounced in the first quarter of 2008. This is around one third fewer than in the first quarter of 2007.
11-06-2008Economic monitor
29-05-2008Web magazine
The number of dismissal permits granted due to disability dropped sharply from 18.7 thousand in 2003 to 5.7 thousand in 2007.
20-05-2008Web magazine
14-05-2008Economic monitor
24-04-2008Press release
20 percent of the Dutch population aged 15 years and older do not feel safe at times.
10-04-2008Economic monitor
27-03-2008Web magazine
In 2007, more than half of the Dutch population indicated that dog droppings, street litter, vandalised bus and tram shelters and graffiti on walls and buildings were a major source of annoyance.
13-03-2008Web magazine
Last year, 14.9 thousand court orders for debt repayments were pronounced, approximately as many as in 2006. This put a stop to the annual increase.
12-03-2008Economic monitor
11-03-2008Web magazine
In 2007, 37 percent of people in the Netherlands reported being bothered by traffic in the neighbourhood where they lived. Most of the problems concerned speeding, but traffic noise and aggressive driving were also often reported.
21-02-2008Web magazine
In 2005, more than 3 percent of people aged between 12 and 25 were questioned by the police as crime suspects, as against 2 percent five years ago.
19-02-2008Web magazine
In 2007, the number of asylum requests submitted in the Netherlands had reached its lowest point since 1988. Iraqi and Somali asylum seekers constituted the largest groups.
08-02-2008Press release
The number of business failures declined further in 2007 to just under 8 thousand, a decrease by 13 percent relative to 2006.
11-01-2008Economic monitor
