People in the Netherlands are voting today in the country's general election.

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 latest save-the-euro summit turned into open season on Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

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.

Relatives of MH17 crash victims, angered by what they see as Dutch mishandling of inquiries into the disaster, want a special UN envoy to launch an international investigation.

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.

The Netherlands’ prime minister has called a halt to the search for remains of victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, saying it is too dangerous to continue.

Black box flight recorders from the downed Air Malaysian plane have arrived for analysis by UK crash investigators.

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.

A distraught mother had summed up the mood of anguish in the Netherlands at faltering efforts to repatriate the bodies of loved ones killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, appealing to Russian president Vladimir Putin to return the bodies of her son and his girlfriend.

It is no longer only grief and mourning sweeping across the Netherlands in the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. It is now anger.

An angry Dutch prime minister says he has had an “extremely intense” telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin in which he urged him to “show the world he intends to help” in the investigation into the Ukraine air disaster.

Schiphol Airport is the wrong place to be for family and friends of those who died on Malaysian flight MH17.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte looks likely to form a coalition between his Conservatives and the Labour party after a major election victory seen as confirmation of voters’ support for the European Union.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has claimed victory for his conservative VVD party in national elections widely seen as a referendum on the Netherlands’ commitment to Europe.

Dutch voters are going to the polls to elect a new parliament in a test of whether they have the stomach to continue with stringent austerity measures.

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.

A polarised Dutch Parliament will debate how to get the country’s economy back on track and try to set an election date after the collapse of the government.

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.

Politics is, as we have been assured so very often, the art of the possible.

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.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has tendered his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix after the collapse of a parliamentary agreement with a far-right party.

Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos was yesterday shuttling over and back between the troika, the creditor banks and political party leaders desperately trying to conclude a deal on new austerity measures.

Negotiations to form a right-wing Dutch coalition collapsed today after anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders walked out of the talks.

Dutch politicians were today trying to sort out who will form the next government, after voters backed parties on both the right and the left with very different ideas on budget cuts and Muslim immigration.

The Netherlands swung to the right today with its VVD party claiming victory in national elections.

The Dutch parliament is holding crisis talks today after MPs passed a motion condemning its caretaker immigration minister for refusing to halt deportations of rejected asylum seekers until a new ruling coalition was formed.