Netherlands

 A yellow warning for strong winds is in place for the whole country, according to the website of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology. Northwest wind with an average speed of 14-19 m/s and gusts up to 24 m/s is expected.

People are advised to watch out for flying debris. Disruption to daily outdoor activities possible in places.

The Eiffel Tower was closed today for visitors because of the strong winds that hit the French capital. This is what the company, which is the operator of the most famous landmark in Paris, told AFP, quoted by BTA.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has expressed his desire to fix “cold relations” between his country and Turkey.

Seven people died on Thursday in a storm that had hurricane winds in northern and eastern Germany, knocked down trees and cranes, and cut off rail transport, France press and DPA reported.

In Hamburg a tree fell over a car in which there were two women. One is dead and the other is admitted to a hospital.

The mayor of Rotterdam says police in the port city stopped a van with Spanish license plates containing a number of gas bottles close to the venue of a concert by an American rock band that was cancelled following a threat, CNBC has reported.

Dutch police on Thursday arrested two company directors suspected of playing a significant role in a sprawling international scandal involving fipronil contamination in eggs, reported Politico.

Belgium and the Netherlands have for the past two weeks struggled to account for their failure to stop fipronil — a toxic insecticide banned for use on farm animals — entering barn eggs.

A European Union that goes to such lengths to express its relief and embellish situations so as to partially justify this relief probably doesn't trust the ideas, visions and values that are touted as being strong and dear to all its members.

According to Melvut Cavusoglu there is no real difference between the political parties in the Netherlands as they all have the mentality of Geert Wilders, as he commented the results of the Dutch elections.

A Turkish minister has claimed ''holy wars will soon begin'' in Europe, in spite of the defeat of far-right leader Geert Wilders in the Netherlands elections.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu did not welcome the victory for Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

Europe will soon be the site of "religion wars," Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on March 16, in Ankara's first comment on the general elections in the Netherlands that saw the victory of Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Liberal VVD.