with summaryFrance did not exactly gain confidence in the last friendly match before the Euro Cup in Germany. National coach Didier Deschamps’ team was held to a 0-0 draw against Canada in Bordeaux, which lost 4-0 to the Dutch team in Rotterdam last Thursday. Source link
French President Emmanuel Macron calls new parliamentary elections after learning that his party suffered a significant defeat in the European elections. France’s radical right party RN received twice as many votes as the president’s party, according to an exit poll published this afternoon. Source link
Anica van Huis-Kortekaas had reason to cheer at the cross-country competition held at the De Zuidstroom equestrian center in Vinkega. In Jaranga, Nijeberkoop’s Amazone was the best in one of the four L classes of the eventing competition. “For me it was a cross with two faces. I wanted to make a controlled crossing,” Van … Read more
As president, he led the general synod of the Protestant Church of the Netherlands (PKN) through meetings with tight agendas and complicated topics. Reverend Marco Batenburg mainly wanted to help. “Sometimes I thought: if we don’t reach an agreement now, I don’t know what to do.” Batenburg will miss contacts with foreign churches now that … Read more
VFor those who follow American politics, one of the most boring pages on the Internet is the website Fivethirtyeight.com. There you can see a graph showing the popularity of Joe Biden and Donald Trump in recent months. At the same time it is also extremely interesting. Because, how is it possible that Trump’s conviction for … Read more
“One minute you’re the new Einstein and the next you’re sitting in an apartment as a single mother.” I read this headline, above a column by Daniela Hooghiemstra in this newspaper, as a single mother of a baby. My situation was not what society or I expected. When a neighbor repeatedly asked me where my … Read more
Even now that the judge has ruled that he must vacate his mobile home, it appears that the ailing Henk is still living there. Out of fear, the seventy-year-old patient now spends his days in a hermetically closed mobile home, where he lives on glue, water and cookies. The municipality wants to help him, his … Read more
A Conille employee did not tell the radio station what was happening with the interim prime minister, appointed by Haiti’s transitional council in late May. Conille succeeded Ariel Henry, who resigned in March. Conille was Prime Minister for a total of seven months in 2011 and 2012. She resigned following a conflict with then-president Michel … Read more
The new coalition does not want to commit to climate goals, but the proposed measures “do not seem feasible.” The officials wrote this in their critical analysis of the main lines agreement. The outgoing minister, Hugo de Jonge (Interior Affairs), published the documents at the request of the opposition. The climate goal (55 percent less … Read more
After a “heroic operation,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of a “bloody massacre.” The hostages were released on Saturday morning around eleven a.m. local time. The woman and three men were rescued simultaneously from two locations in Nuseirat in a joint operation between the army, the Yamam anti-terror unit, … Read more