As experts are expecting that the water level of the Meuse river will continue to rise until noon and the water has starting flowing over the dyke, the mayor of Maaseik in the Limburg province urged people to stay away.

Mink with the coronavirus have infected two people in the Netherlands in what are probably the first such cases of transmission during the epidemic, government and health authorities said on Monday.

All-time records in Germany and Luxembourg could also fall in latest continent-wide heatwave

Temperatures pass 39C in Belgium and the Netherlands, as a Eurostar train breaks down in the heat.

A fierce storm sweeping across northern Europe kills eight people and halts Dutch and German trains.