The Gnome Sweet Gnome Edition - Week 48 - 2024
You don't need a degree in rocket science to work out that the government's higher education cuts are in deep trouble after opposition parties form a united front in the Senate against the €2 billion package. More budget headaches in Brussels as the EU raps the Netherlands over the knuckles for busting the deficit limit that it was instrumental in setting up. Integration lessons for refugees are so time-consuming that they damage their efforts to find work and participate in society, a new report finds. Dutch football clubs have a sensational week in the Champions League, while the tennis team fall agonisingly short of glory. And newly discovered letters from Albert Einstein provide evidence for the theory that Groningen is the most stubborn place in the universe.