In The Netherlands tension in the labour market is high as there are more vacancies than unemployed people, the Dutch broadcaster NOS reports. "This we haven't seen in 50 years," Peter Hein van Mulligen, chief economist of the Dutch Central Bureau for Sta.
Even as UK schools record a rise in COVID-19 infections due to reopening policies, Mark Rutte’s Dutch government is pushing to end all social-distancing measures.
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Twenty years ago, just after the stroke of midnight on April 1, the mayor of Amsterdam married four couples in city hall as the Netherlands became the first country with legalized same-sex marriages.
“There are two reasons to rejoice,” Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen told the newlyweds before pink champagne and pink cake were served. “You are celebrating your marriage, and you are also celebrating your right to be married.”
Same-sex marriage is legal in 29 countries. That includes most of Western Europe. Yet its spread has been uneven Taiwan is the only country in Asia to take the step; South Africa