29 February – Dutch international footballer Quincy Promes is detained in Dubai while on trip with Spartak Moscow and faces extradition to the Netherlands after having been recently convicted in absentia of drug trafficking and sentenced to six years in prison by a Dutch court.[7]
30 March – In a six hour long hostage situation in Ede, over 150 people are evacuated after a man holds four people hostage in a nightclub and threatens to blow himself up. The suspect eventually releases the hostages and surrenders to police.[10]
April
11 April – The Netherlands increases its military budget to two percent of its GDP for the first time since 1994.[11]
11 June – An agreement is reached to form a new cabinet of ministers in the incoming coalition government.[18]
12 June – A court convicts three people and sentences them to between 26 and 28 years imprisonment for the murder of journalist Peter R. de Vries in 2021.[19]
20 June – Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte is selected to assume the NATO Secretariat for a term that begins on 2 October 2024.[20]
23 August – Prime Minister Schoof announces a ban on the usage of cell phones and other mobile devices during cabinet meetings as part of efforts to reduce infiltration by spies.[24]
A nationwide IT outage is recorded following a network failure at the Defence Ministry.[26]
The Dinner train, a company that offered luxury dinners on a moving train departing from a different city every week, declares bankruptcy.[27]
September
9 September – Two Pakistani nationals, including Saad Hussain Rizvi, the leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, are convicted in absentia by a Dutch court for making death threats against Geert Wilders.[28]
10 September – The Netherlands lifts all its weapon restrictions on military equipment it granted to Ukraine, allowing its army to target Russia with deep strikes while urging other nations to lift their weapon restrictions as well.[29]
19 September – One person is killed and another is injured in a knife attack in Rotterdam. A suspect is arrested.[30]
27 September – Authorities announce that a cyberattack on a police account likely done by a "state actor" led to the perpetrators gaining access to the work-related contact details of all members of the National Police Corps.[31]
30 October – The Northern Netherlands District Court imposes a daily fine of 50,000 euros ($54,000) on the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers for failing to reduce overcrowding in a migrant reception center in Ter Apel that houses more 2,000 people.[33]
November
1 November –
Junior finance minister Folkert Idsinga resigns amid criticism over his refusal to disclose details of his personal shareholdings and other investments.[34]
Two silk screens by Andy Warhol are stolen while two others are destroyed during a break-in at the MPV Gallery in Oisterwijk, North Brabant. One suspect is arrested.[35][36]
7 December – Six people are killed after an explosion causes the collapse of a three-storey building in The Hague.[40]
11 December – A woman who was repatriated from Syria after travelling there and marrying an Islamic State militant is convicted of enslaving a Yazidi woman who was taken to Syria after being abducted by Islamic State in Iraq and is sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.[41]
12 December – The Miss Nederland pageant is discontinued after 35 years.[42]
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