2025 in the Netherlands

22 January – The District Court of The Hague orders the government to meet its own goals for reducing overall nitrogen emissions by 2030 or pay a 10 million euro ($10.4 million) fine to Greenpeace.^[1]
25 January – The Dacian-era Helmet of Coțofenești, on loan from the National History Museum of Romania, is stolen along with three other gold artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen by thieves who break into the museum using explosives.^[2]

19 February – The Netherlands agrees to repatriate 119 artefacts from the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, including some of the Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria.^[3] They are officially turned over on 19 June.^[4]
21 February – A medical student identified as Fouad Lakhlili is sentenced to life imprisonment for killing three people in the 2023 Rotterdam shootings.^[5]

16 March – The historic Wilhelminatoren collapses in Valkenburg aan de Geul.^[6]
27 March – 2025 Amsterdam stabbing attack: A Ukrainian national injures five people in the Sint Nicolaasstraat area in the vicinity of Dam Square in central Amsterdam.^[7]
31 March – The Caribbean guilder replaces the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.^[8]

18 April – Pieter Omtzigt, the leader of the New Social Contract party, announces his retirement from the governing coalition and politics altogether, citing burnout.^[9]

6 May – Around 10 structures are destroyed in a fire in Arnhem.^[10]
17 May – The Netherlands' Claude finishes in 12th place at Eurovision 2025 in Switzerland with the single "C'est la vie".^[11]
18 May – PSV Eindhoven wins the 2024–25 Eredivisie after defeating Sparta Rotterdam 3-1 in the final.^[12]

3 June – The Party for Freedom led by Geert Wilders withdraws from the Schoof cabinet after failing to come to an agreement with coalition partners over amending the country's asylum rules, prompting the resignation of prime minister Dick Schoof and a general election.^[13]
12 June – The Labour Party and GroenLinks agree to participate with one shared candidate list again, and to merge their parties in 2026.^[14]
23 June – A cyberattack linked to the 2025 The Hague NATO summit and blamed on the pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16) is conducted on several municipalities and organizations nationwide.^[15]
24–25 June – 2025 The Hague NATO summit^[16]

16 July – One person is injured in a stabbing at a cultural center in Alblasserdam, resulting in three arrests.^[17]
28 July – The government bars Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country over their role in human rights violations against Palestinians.^[18]

20 August – Killing of Lisa from Abcoude^[19]
22 August – Caspar Veldkamp resigns as foreign minister after failing to win support in the ruling coalition to impose sanctions on Israel over its conduct in the Gaza war, triggering the resignation of other ministers from his New Social Contract party.^[20]

12 September – Five schools in Beverwijk and Heemskerk are ordered closed following instances of violence between two youth groups.^[21]
20 September – Thirty people are arrested while two police officers are injured following clashes between police and far-right, anti-immigration protesters in The Hague.^[22]
26 September – Authorities announce the detention of two teenagers on suspicion of spying for pro-Russian hackers.^[23]

29 October – 2025 Dutch general election.^[24]
27 November–14 December – 2025 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany and the Netherlands^[25]^[26]

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