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On 31 December 2024, the District Court of Central Netherlands ruled that the Dutch public broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) did not act unlawfully by reporting on the treatment of Polish migrant workers by the employment agency IFC Work. The court determined, in particular, that NOS did not overstep the boundaries of media freedom as it fully abided by journalistic standards. The ruling became publicly available on 4 February 2025. The case revolved around a programme titled "Poolse Europarlementariër waarschuwt Polen voor werken in Nederland" (Polish MEP warns Poles...

On 4 February 2025, Uitvoeringswet digitaledienstenverordening – the Dutch act implementing the Digital Services Act (DSA) – entered into force. Under this legislation, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (Autoriteit Consument & Markt – ACM) was officially designated as the Digital Services Coordinator (DSC) – a national supervisory authority responsible for the effective and consistent supervision and enforcement of the DSA. The ACM will exercise a wide range of investigative and enforcement powers in the Netherlands as well as participating in...

On 30 October 2024, researchers from Leiden University published a report entitled "Chinese Influence and Interference in the Dutch Media Landscape". The report was completed at the request of the Tweede Kamer (the lower chamber of the Dutch Parliament) in April 2023 on behalf of the China Knowledge Network (CKN), funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The motion was filed by Ruben Brekelmans, who currently serves as the Dutch Minister of Defence, after Marije Vlaskamp, a journalist at the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant, reported threats in connection with her critical stance on...

On 14 November 2024, the Dutch Supreme Court filed a request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The questions concern the interpretation of the notion of "communication to the public" under Article 3(1) of the Copyright in the Information Society Directive (InfoSoc Directive) in the context of geo-blocking measures. The request for a preliminary ruling has been made in the dispute between the Anne Frank Fund (the non-profit organisation based in Basel, Switzerland, which owns copyrights on Anne Frank’s diary), and the Anne Frank Foundation (which...

On 27 November 2024, the Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science, in a letter to parliament, announced a significant policy measure for the protection of journalists in the Netherlands. In particular, the minister announced that PersVeilig, a joint initiative of the Dutch Association of Journalists, the Dutch Association of Editors in Chief, the Police and the Public Prosecution Service, which aims to strengthen the position of journalists against violence and aggression, will receive significant structural government funding from 2025. This follows a previous 2022 government measure...