Will Formula 1 come to Assen from 2027, now that the GP is disappearing from the Zandvoort circuit? In addition, shooting the wolf will become easier and the municipality of Hoogeveen can expect more than ten million from The Hague to renovate some residential areas. You can read that and more important news in this weekly overview.
But first femicide. This is being reported more and more often in the Netherlands. Several women in Drenthe have also been kidnapped by their partners or ex-partners in recent months. Like 53-year-old Tonnie from Schoonebeek. She was stabbed to death at a childcare center in Hardenberg in October by her ex, who could not accept that the relationship was over.
Wolf protection is taking a step down in Europe. The predator will soon no longer be ‘strictly protected’, but only ‘protected’. The adjustment should ensure that the rules for shooting (problem) wolves are relaxed. “A good first step”, according to nature representative Egbert van Dijk (BBB), but he does not expect much to change. “A lot of time has passed before we get to this point, but this is still a step forward.”
Formula 1 disappears from Zandvoort. The contract expires after the race in 2026 and the organization does not want to extend the contract due to the high costs. And that creates hope in Assen. “I think the chance is very small, but this offers possibilities,” says Lee van Dam of The Netherlands Grand Prix Foundation, who also tried to bring the Dutch GP to Assen in 2018.
The Grand Prix Business Club Assen, which lobbied for a Formula 1 GP on the TT Circuit in 2018, was also immediately woken up again. “This morning our group app exploded again,” laughs Joost van Keulen. “We plan to start a lobby again to bring the Grand Prix to Assen. Because,” says the entrepreneur, “the Formula 1 fans will stay there. We absolutely, one hundred percent, see opportunities for Assen. If If it is possible in Zandvoort, it is certainly possible in Assen.”
Nearly eight hundred apartments in often older apartment complexes in Hoogeveen can be made more sustainable. The municipality of Hoogeveen has received 10.6 million from the government for this purpose.
“We are going to help our residents by saving energy,” says councilor Jeroen Westendorp. “We encountered the fact that the so-called Owners’ Association, i.e. owners who live together in one building, find it difficult to make sustainability work. Because it often involves very large investments.”
And the construction of the As-Sunnah Mosque in Assen still cannot continue. the board of the mosque and contractor HTO have a conflict about the work. The Northern Netherlands court was supposed to rule on this on Friday, but that ruling has been postponed for the third time. This greatly frustrated the mosque board.