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 come to a standstill under the short-lived Schoof cabinet, as the opposition claims? Jurgen Tiekstra looked beyond the political theater and dug 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....
Everywhere, companies are complaining about the regulatory burden. Whether it’s the City of Amsterdam, the Dutch government, or the European Parliament, bureaucrats are said to be getting in the way of entrepreneurs everywhere. 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?....