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 a Dutch court.[6]
30 March – In a six hour long hostage situation in Ede, over 150 people are evacuated after a man holds four people hostage in a nightclub and threatens to blow himself up. The suspect eventually releases the hostages and surrenders to police.[9]
April
11 April – The Netherlands increases its military budget to two percent of its GDP for the first time since 1994.[10]
11 June – An agreement is reached to form a new cabinet of ministers in the incoming coalition government.[17]
12 June – A court convicts three people and sentences them to between 26 to 28 years imprisonment for the murder of journalist Peter R. de Vries in 2021.[18]
20 June – Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte is selected to assume the NATO Secretariat for a term that begins on 2 October 2024.[19]