From the start of March, the new Citizens’ Initiative Act will come into force.
According to the new law, a required minimum of 50,000 citizens of voting age can launch a bill that Parliament then has to process.
On the Open Ministry website, anyone can present an idea for a law initiative. If the idea wins enough support, the ministry’s volunteer workers will work on it and turn it into a presentable bill for the MPs to chew over.

From the beginning of March, citizens’ initiative bills can be sent for parliamentary handling if they are signed by 50,000 people entitled to vote

via Helsingin Sanomat – International Edition – Home.

Awesome and about time that the people get to more directly rule a democracy!

Some idiots think that the city of Amsterdam should do anything to set up a .amsterdam global top level domain to market the city (so you could have www.stupid.amsterdam as a web address).

'Gemeente moet topleveldomein .amsterdam claimen' | Webwereld.

That, hoewever, costs $185,000 New gTLD Applicant guidebook, ch. 1.5 as well as having to set up a domain registry (which is difficult as well as involved).

Basically the PVV, backed by Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, have a few sensationalist headlines from a religious magazine that no-one knows (Reformatiorich Dagblad) or reads and a few from a more serious newspaper (AD) that aren’t so sensationalist, and on the basis of this they’ve decided to open up a Hitlerite plan to turn citizens into anonymous spies and snitches on a very directed group of people – middle and eastern Europeans.

Fortunatley everyone on the internet seems to be making fun of the plan. Unfortunately, NL is populated with plenty of people who will take it seriously.

Meldpunt Midden en Oost-Europeanen.