In one week, both the CO2 tax and the customization agreements for industry came under threat. What does it mean for the future of industry in the Netherlands that even the two most well thought out plans from The Hague turn out not to work?....
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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?
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 last election was about migration on television and social media. But in the financial inserts, they were about something very different: how do we make corporations pay an even larger share of our welfare state? Are there any politicians this time who dare to stand up for corporations?....