Mr. Coates is a columnist for Algemeen Dagblad, a Dutch daily newspaper, and the author of “Why the Dutch Are Different.” GOUDA, the Netherlands — In the fields around where I live, in the ...

New beach flags have been unveiled in The Hague designed to make it clearer to visitors when it is safe to swim. Icons and texts in English have been added to the flags after research found many ...

This year, the celebrations included something new: a Chinook of the 298 Squadron of the Royal Netherlands Air Force flew a huge flag over Hotel de Wereld and Wageningen, the city where ...

When, on Feb. 11, five former prime ministers urged Canadians to “proudly fly their flag,” this one, that his father had carried in the Netherlands during the Second World War, was the one he ...