He is poor as a church mouse and still, at 35, such “innocent gaum” (dumbbell) that when he gets a check for one of his first plays he doesn’t know how to go about cashing it. But he is ...

Former Dutch minister and European commissioner Frits Bolkestein has died at the age of 91. Bolkestein, who had voted PvdA in his younger days, worked for Shell before being elected an MP on behalf of ...