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King Willem-Alexander of Netherlands (R) and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof arrive for the signing of the Royal Decrees at Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague, on July 2, 2024.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's coalition government collapsed Friday over "insurmountable" differences on how to tackle migration, with elections expected in November.

Rutte, 56, the Netherlands' longest-serving leader and one of Europe's most experienced politicians, said days of crisis talks between the four parties failed to produce a deal.

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of The Netherlands will pay an official three-day visit to Greece on Sunday, following an invitation by Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

Accompanied by her husband King Willem-Alexander, Maxima was seen in a bold blue gown at a music event in Oslo

Normally museums exhibit only a small proportion of their collections, but the Boijmans Van Beuningen gallery in Rotterdam will this week become the first in the world to show off the lot.

The delicacy of one of the first objects in new exhibition at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum belies its brutality. At the end of a thin iron rod are the artistically interwoven letters GWC, used to brand the initials of a Dutch trading company into the skin of enslaved workers.

Netherlands Health Minister Bruno Bruins, who is responsible for coronavirus measures, has resigned.

He has asked King Willem-Alexander to dismiss him and the king has accepted his resignation, according to a government website

According to Dutch, the minister's resignation was unexpected.

Protests have been carried out by different groups in Turkey over the past two days against the Netherlands, amid escalating row between the two countries after a Turkish minister was barred from speaking at an event in Rotterdam. 

A shopkeeper in the Kahta district of the southeastern province of Adıyaman has filed a criminal complaint against the Netherlands's king, prime minister and other government officials after Turkish ministers were banned from entering the country, escalating tensions between the Netherlands and Turkey, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

French President Francois Hollande and the Dutch king and queen on March 10 viewed two rare Rembrandts jointly bought by the Louvre and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to avoid a bidding war between their two countries.