About Hollands Welvaren

Hollands Welvaren is an independent journalistic platform for anyone interested in how the Netherlands actually makes its money and how we make sure we stay prosperous. The basis of Hollands Welvaren is its email newsletter.

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Hollands Welvaren was founded in 2025 by me, Joris Heijn. I have been a financial journalist since 2012 and have worked for Het Financieele Dagblad, Follow The Money and Elsevier Weekblad/EW, among others. During that time, I have come across all sorts of fascinating world-class activity taking place in our little chickadee. But I've also encountered plenty of things that threaten that entrepreneurship. I hope to find a healthy mix between those two issues in Hollands Welvaren's articles.

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Ten things to know about Hollands Welvaren:

Readers

  • Hollands Welvaren is aimed at anyone interested in what is happening in the Dutch economy.

Focus

  • Hollands Welvaren focuses on the big trends. We don't write about euros, we write about billions of euros.

Curious

  • Hollands Welvaren is guided in her choice of topics for articles by her own fascination, interests, curiosity (and sometimes frustration 😉 ). 

Independent

  • Hollands Welvaren is independent and thus has no financial interests in individual companies, nor is it paid for writing certain stories. 

Plug-in

  • Hollands Welvaren wants to be constructive where it can, but critical where it must.

Persuasion

  • Hollands Welvaren believes in the power of the free market and the smart use of government where the market fails.

Journalism

  • Hollands Welvaren is journalism. We do not only publish opinions and analyses "from behind the desk," but also go out and about, talk to people and do our own (data) research.  

Resources

  • Hollands Welvaren treats the people with whom it speaks with respect. Those who speak to Hollands Welvaren on the record may be quoted. Anyone speaking off the record with Hollands Welvaren can assume that the information will be used in such a way that it is no longer traceable to the source for the public.

One-pitter

  • Hollands Welvaren is, for now at least, a one-man band. So it may be that the quality, or the frequency does falter sometimes when there are personal circumstances, or when it is time for vacation. I hope for your understanding for that.

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