This paper addresses the critical need for detecting bias in government documents, an underexplored area with significant implications for governance. Existing methodologies often overlook the unique context and far-reaching impacts of governmental documents, potentially obscuring embedded biases that shape public policy and citizen-government interactions. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Dutch Government Data for Bias Detection (DGDB), a dataset sourced from the Dutch House of Representatives and annotated for bias by experts. We fine-tune several BERT-based models on this dataset and compare their performance with that of generative language models. Additionally, we conduct a comprehensive error analysis that includes explanations of the models' predictions. Our findings demonstrate that fine-tuned models achieve strong performance and significantly outperform generative language models, indicating the effectiveness of DGDB for bias detection. This work underscores the importance of labeled datasets for bias detection in various languages and contributes to more equitable governance practices.

Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said while on a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday that his country will invest 400 million ( 440 million) in advanced drone development with Ukraine and deliver more F-16s in the coming months. More than 2½ years since the start of the Russian full-scale invasion, Ukraine is fighting to thwart Russia's troops as they inch forward in the east and attack critical infrastructure ahead of the winter months. "The war, of course, is intensifying every day, and Ukraine is setting up more brigades who all need support, who all need military equipment. We need to have this continuous flow of support," Brekelmans said in Kyiv.

The Dutch data protection agency has asked Microsoft's lead privacy regulator in Europe to investigate ongoing concerns it has attached to how Windows 10 gathers user data. Back in 2017 the privacy watchdog found Microsoft's platform to be in breach of local privacy laws on account of how it collects telemetry metadata. After some back and forth with the regulator, Microsoft made changes to how the software operates in April last year -- and it was in the course of testing those changes that the Dutch agency found fresh reasons for concern, discovering what it calls in a press release "new, potentially unlawful, instances of personal data processing". Since the agency's investigation of Windows 10 started a new privacy framework is being enforced in Europe -- the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) -- which means Microsoft's lead EU privacy regulator is the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), where its regional HQ is based. This is why the Dutch agency has referred its latest concerns to Ireland.

The Dutch government is running into problems with its autonomous vehicle plans; namely, the automobiles can't understand cyclists. According to'I Amsterdam', there are 881,000 bikes in Amsterdam alone. That's a big problem if driverless cars are unable to understand and react to cyclists. Under the Dutch government's plans, 100 driverless trucks would drive the so-called'tulip corridors' at night. A human driver would lead a pack of autonomous vehicles on major roads crossing neighbouring countries including Germany and Belgium.

In addition to fintech solutions, the Dutch Land Registry also turned to the incorporation of AI with the goal of setting up "cognitive systems to make predictable models" to see how blockchains and AI can operate in the national property scope. Holland's Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy initiated a national blockchain research project with a special unit in charge of recognizing possible application of ledger technology in the Netherlands.

JUDY WOODRUFF: In the Netherlands, voters head to the polls tomorrow, in Europe's first big and closely watched election of the year. An ardent nationalist, running on an anti-immigrant agenda, is bidding for the prime minister's office, hoping to lead the way for similar candidates in France and Germany. The election also comes amid an escalating war of words between the Dutch government and Turkey over a referendum next month that could give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vast new powers. Just today, Erdogan accused Dutch troops of complicity in the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica. That's a charge which a Dutch court had previously cleared.

The Netherlands is not the only country concerned about drones near airports. Last month, the European Aviation Safety Agency said it is setting up a task force to examine the risk of collisions between drones and aircraft.