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Netherlands
Free articles, plus 3 Premium articles a month with a free account
Articles without the Premium label can be read without a subscription. If you log in to the paper's app with a free DPG Media account, you can also read up to 3 Premium articles a month. The same rule appears in the BD, De Gelderlander, PZC, Tubantia and ED apps.
Yearly Digitaal Basis subscription in the app
Each paper's iPhone app sells a yearly Digitaal Basis subscription, which gives access to all Premium articles. The apps say subscription offers are for new subscribers only, and the papers' own websites also sell subscriptions, so compare the web price before you buy in the app.
Free student subscription (ages 16 to 25)
Students aged 16 to 25 at an mbo, hbo or university pick one DPG newspaper, which can be any of the seven regional titles, and confirm their status with their student details. That subscription also gives digital access to all DPG Media news brands, including AD, de Volkskrant, Trouw and Het Parool. It is read in the app on one phone or tablet, and DPG checks once a year that you are still a student.
Free subscriptions for people on a low income
DPG gives out about 5,000 free newspaper subscriptions a year in the Netherlands and Flanders to people who could not otherwise afford one. The project began in 2023 as a pilot at De Gelderlander. You cannot apply to DPG directly: the subscriptions are handed out by groups that help people in poverty, such as food banks, Stichting Armoedefonds and Quiet, in about twenty cities.