Holiday weekend crowds building at Schiphol; Army won't offer airport help yet

For the time being, the army will not assist at Schiphol as parliamentarian Wybren van Haga and the association for travel agencies ANVR requested. Defense only steps in if the security region asks for it. Such a request has not been made, and if it does come, “the chance will not be very great that Defense will grant this request,” a spokesperson said.

The Association of Social Childcare (BMK) and parents are concerned by the Senate’s rejection of a D66 proposal to give childcare centers the right to refuse children who have not been vaccinated. The proposal aimed to make childcare centers safer for children’s health.

Various types of fish, crustaceans, and shellfish from the Westerschelde contain such high concentrations of PFAS chemicals that the National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM) issued a warning to eat them “as little as possible.” The institute calculated how much people could eat of various species without ingesting excessive amounts of harmful chemicals.

To ensure that the Netherlands has enough teachers, healthcare workers, and Defense personnel in the future, the Cabinet must encourage them to work more hours in the short term, the Social and Economic Council (SER) advised. The Cabinet asked the SER for advice to help with its plan to tackle staff shortages in the public sector, which it will present in the summer, NOS reports.