The Netherlands has the largest chip industry in Europe. That industry will grow very rapidly in the coming years. The Netherlands faces a choice: will it make room for this growth, or will it let the sector wither away?
Did housing construction really stand still under the short Schoof administration, as the opposition claims? Jurgen Tiekstra looked beyond the political theater and delved into the numbers....
Calls are growing for a National Investment Bank. With it, 100 billion euros could be invested in the Dutch economy. But the Netherlands already abounds in solid banks; what is missing are dúrfinvesteringen....
Companies everywhere are whining about regulatory burden. Whether it's the City of Amsterdam, the Dutch government or the European Parliament, everywhere bureaucrats are said to get in the way of entrepreneurs. But is the regulatory burden really that high?....
The Netherlands has the most important chip industry in Europe, but its exact size is unknown. Hollands Welvaren therefore listed the main players. ASML is by far the largest, but it relies heavily on the much smaller players in the Netherlands....
The oil boycott and car-free Sundays of the 1970s are still in the Dutch collective DNA. As tensions rise in the Middle East, therefore, the question quickly arises: should we fear shortages of oil (and gas!) again should the Persian Gulf be shut off?....