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]