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Germany sends this week five policemen to Slovenia to assist in curbing the flow of refugees. This is a spokeswoman for the German Interior Ministry said Tuesday.

Refugees who stay get urgent advice visible wear an identity badge in a Belgian refugee center. To facilitate their identification.

Thousands of schools have no access to the Internet via fiber optic cables. There must be something to be done, says the organization for primary, the PO council. Who sent a letter to parliament.

Dutch users of business networking site LinkedIn can claim hundreds of euros for use of their identity.

Customers of McDonald's quickly get to choose. The hamburger chain starts with an experiment in which people can create their own citizens. The company picks this year known international concepts such as the McCafe and the Salad Bar in Netherlands.

Slovenia switches private security firms to guard the border and the flow of refugees under control. That the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the more than 2 million inhabitants country announced Monday.

Netherlands and China will together make more films. The relevant ministers of both countries on Monday signed a co-production treaty. That happened during the state visit of the Dutch royal couple in China. For the Netherlands signed minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs).

Safe Traffic Netherlands questioned the software that owners in 2000 in the Netherlands this week on their Tesla Model S can be set. As the first production car in the world, the Tesla can govern themselves.

The threat level for asylum centers in Belgium is increased from one to two. That is because of the increased violence against refugees in neighboring countries like the Netherlands and Germany.

Belgium also takes measures to make it more attractive for refugees to seek asylum there. As asylum seekers should soon sign a declaration in which they indicate that they comply with European rights, duties, values ​​and freedoms.

There is considerable fuss among users of online services like Popcorn Time, allowing free - and illegal - movies and series to watch. A Dutch guy living in Germany, has been fined nearly € 1,100 and the Dutch entertainment industry also threatens to address users here.

Smartphone owners can not get enough of downloading apps and thereby constantly to possess little phone's memory, may benefit from Robin. This smartphone of the American Nextbit stores files and applications that are rarely used automatically in the cloud.

The United Nations existed seventy years. Which is celebrated worldwide on October 24 by exposing 180 sites in more than fifty countries in the official blue of the UN. The Peace Palace in The Hague in the Netherlands the blue object. Which announced the UN.

European leaders dealing with asylum and migration meet again to discuss the refugee crisis. Luxembourg currently chairs the European Union, is organizing on November 9 an additional council in Brussels.

Tele2 is in the Netherlands open their own stores. The Swedish telecom bursting with ambition and will in a few years have owned a fifth of the Dutch mobile market. Now that the market share of Tele2 in the Netherlands, according to the company have between 7 and 8 percent.

The Dutch labor market has big shortages of technical personnel and increase in the coming years will only increase. Especially girls that science subjects are left , while a technological background in many professions is an advantage.

Students from Erasmus University Rotterdam with their start-up Sowdan 2.1 million collected from investors. The company will use the investment to allow real-time payments between different banks.

Copyright watchdog BREIN wants to individual users of the popular but illegal streaming service Popcorn Time to go fine, says BREIN director Tim Kuik of BNR .

Android users in the Netherlands are no longer exclusively dependent on a credit card to pay for apps and services in Google Play. The gift cards since the end of 2012 are available in many countries finally come to the Netherlands .

The tent camp on Heumensoord Nijmegen gets 560 new asylum seekers . Three hundred refugees arrive Tuesday and Wednesday adds another 260 people . In total stay than about twelve hundred people in emergency shelters , according to the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers COA Tuesday .

Highly educated refugees with an IT background may on January 1 at the Hogeschool Utrecht (HU) starting with a custom- designed training . It is an experiment , which initially up to thirty recognized refugees can participate , according to the HU and the community Monday .

The internationally recognized Libya's parliament approved the proposal of the United Nations to form a unity government Monday rejected . The parliament , seated in the east of the country , wants to continue with the UN-sponsored peace talks with the rival government in the capital Tripoli . The UN had proposed a unity government to end the war in the North African country , accompanied by six potential candidates for key positions.

The largest NATO exercise in thirteen years, started Monday in Italy , Portugal and Spain . At the military maneuvers take 36 000 soldiers belong to 30 countries , 70 ships and 200 aircraft , reports the Ministry of Defence .

Chinese phone maker Xiaomi was already renowned for his excursions into other genres gadget , but now it has a very special device launched. It is the Ninebot Mini , a small electric transport that resembles a small version of the Segway.

The fourth installment in the Millennium series has been so successful that David Lagercrantz will write two parts. That the Dutch publisher A. W. Bruna Monday.

The new Lumia models from Microsoft are available in the Netherlands since the beginning of December . The Lumia 550 , 950 and XL 950 since Monday also ordered already pre-order , so Microsoft announced . The smartphones were presented early this month in New York.

At least five people have Saturday and Sunday cycled on highways in the country. Brabant Asten when a woman came in the crash . She was hit by two trucks when they bike crossed the highway and died at the scene . The police can not say who the woman is .

During the upcoming state visit of King Willem- Alexander to China and its partially coincident trade mission rights issue will again be discussed . That has let Bert Koenders, Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday . Who is going to raise the issue , wants a spokeswoman for the Ministry did not say .

King Willem - Alexander must during the state visit to China next week begins Sunday publicly draw attention to the human rights situation in the country.

The great popularity of the PVV could have implications for the Netherlands of foreign trade . "If the Netherlands gets the image that will have little to do abroad and is afraid of other cultural influences, then that is a matter of concern ," said president of the employers' association VNO -NCW Hans de Boer Sunday in WNL on Sunday.