Many European cities share common problems, but because of cultural differences, they respond differently. Some ban or limit cars and make some streets pedestrian-only.

With the Government to be taken to court for its alleged failures on climate change, the law is now a frontline for campaigners, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

The Dutch government has ordered the country's farmers to keep all poultry indoors after bird flu was discovered at a duck farm.

Here is a look at the impact of Hurricane Irma on individual countries and territories in the Caribbean as of tonight:

The Dutch government is partially liable for the deaths of around 300 Muslim men killed in Srebrenica in 1995, an appeals court has rul

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Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary is one of the most successful businessmen this country has produced. He radiates a can-do, won’t-take-no-for-an-answer determination and positivity.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the Netherlands in its diplomatic fight with Turkey as Nato's chief called for alliance members to respect each other and the European Union urged Turkey to calm down.

The weekend confrontation between Turkey, Holland, and Germany may seem a remote, Mitteleuropa sideshow but it is not at all.

UPDATE 1pm: Protestors have clashed with riot police after authorities in the Netherlands cancelled a planned rally in support of Turkey’s President.

A major row has broken out between Turkey and the Netherlands.

Wide-ranging tax rules designed to recoup much of the estimated €70bn multinationals underpay in the EU each year will not adversely affect Ireland’s attractiveness to foreign direct investment, according to state and private tax experts.

A landmark decision that two iconic multinationals, Fiat and Starbucks, avoided paying their fair share of tax, facilitated by the Luxembourg and Dutch authorities, respectively, may be appealed to the European Court of Justice.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte says he supports moves to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysian Airlines plane over Ukraine last year.

In a sweeping victory for Dutch environmental activists that could have global repercussions, a court ordered the government to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020.

Ireland is among the world’s elite in terms of digital development having consolidated its reputation as one of the key drivers of the global digital economy.

The Dutch government has banned the transport of poultry and eggs throughout the country after confirming an outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm.

Children have silently placed flowers next to 298 candles – one for each victim of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash – at a sombre Dutch commemoration of the air disaster.

US fighter jets and bombers have pounded Islamic State targets in both Syria and Iraq.

US fighter jets and bombers have pounded Islamic State targets, striking the militants in both Syria and Iraq.

A father who lost his son in the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash said that the families needed to see their loved ones and bury them for "closure".

The king and queen of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster are repatriated from the Ukraine today.

The Dutch government proposed to amend its tax rules to make it easier for lenders there to tap into Europe’s fastest-growing market for bank debt.

The Dutch government is facing an unusual crisis: Prison undercrowding.

AN ENDLESS male parade is passing by, all of them some woman’s boyfriend, husband, brother or father. Most of the men wear dark casual clothes and very few look shabby.

Prisoners in the Netherlands may soon have to pay for their cell accommodation, if a bill becomes law.

Russian authorities have released six Greenpeace activists on bail who were involved in protest in the Arctic.

It is claimed schools are among the possible targets of specific and imminent threats to westerners in the Libyan city of Benghazi, according to the Associated Press.

The Dutch government has scrapped a planned “weed pass” designed to keep foreigners out of the nation’s cannabis-selling coffee shops.

The stories that emerged from the European Senior Games in Poland this last week would put those of us camped on the couch of an evening to shame

A Syrian general and 38 other soldiers defected to Turkey, state television said, days after Syria shot down a Turkish warplane, escalating tensions between the two neighbours.

MANY European cities are advancing plans to combat the effects of climate change, with some coming up with novel proposals that could be of interest here — especially in the wake of the huge damage caused by floods in Cork and several other Irish urban areas in 2009.

The Dutch caretaker government and several opposition parties said today that they have done in a matter of days what the Cabinet failed to do in seven weeks: craft a provisional 2013 austerity budget.

The Dutch government, one of the most vocal critics of European countries failing to rein in their budgets, quit after failing to agree on a plan to bring its own deficit in line with EU rules.

The Dutch government, one of the biggest critics of European countries failing to rein in their budgets, has resigned after disagreeing on a plan to bring its own deficit in line with EU rules.

Senator David Norris today failed in a bid to stop the legislation going through to allow for next month's referendum on the EU Fiscal Compact Treaty.