Backed by the Dutch Republic, the Dutch East India Company made its ownership available to the public to fund business and military ventures.
To increase reservists, 18-year-olds in Belgium will soon receive letters informing them about voluntary military service, following a recently announced initiative in the Netherlands.
A 17th-century Brueghel painting, stolen from Poland’s Gdańsk Museum in 1974, has been recovered in the Netherlands with the help of a detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Arka World”.
The Netherlands and Sierra Leone are investigating reports that the Dutch cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers is living in the West African nation.