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 the Dutch court.[6]
30 March – In a six hour long
hostage situation in the town of
Ede over 150 people were evacuated after a man held four people hostage in a nightclub and threatened to
blow himself up. The suspect eventually releases the hostages and surrenders to police.[9]
11 April – The Netherlands increases its
military budget to 2 percent of its
GDP for the first time since 1994.[10]