From an entire village that has to make way for power plants to a jiu-jitsu master who receives a prestigious title: these are the five stories you must read this week.
Residents of the village of Moerdijk will soon have to sit down with the municipality. The village is in danger of disappearing to make way for three large power stations. But before the houses, shops and schools can be demolished, many residents will have to be relocated. How does such a negotiation work? Lawyer and professor of Expropriation Law Jacques Sluysmans explains it, read how it works here.
The more than a thousand residents of Moerdijk have to move to make way for three large power stations. That evokes a lot of emotions. The municipal council has agreed that residents should not suffer ‘not a single cent of damage’. You can read the whole story here.
René Lange (66) from Linden is one of the few Dutch people to achieve the prestigious eighth dan in jiu-jitsu. He started at the age of eighteen and has now been running his own Budo school for more than thirty years. You can read his story here.
Research shows that about forty to fifty villages in Brabant have disappeared in the past, mainly due to floods and drought. The villages of Weede, Houweninghen and Erkentrudekerke disappeared during the Sint-Elisabeth flood. Check it out here.
Jan Uters from Den Bosch celebrates the opening of the carnival season for the fifteenth time during the Eleventh of the Eleventh. He saw the party grow from a modest gathering to a major event. Read his story here.