The municipality does offer help if people want to return to their country of origin. But not everyone wants that, says Anna Bartann of the Barka foundation. “For example, when people are ashamed to go back empty-handed. Sometimes they have lived here for years and they have no place to go in their country of…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) imposes a fine of 750,000 euros on the popular video app TikTok. The platform has violated the privacy of young children by showing them the privacy statement only in English when installing the app, the regulator said. The violation concerns the period May 2018 to July 2020. After that…
As expected, Shell will appeal against the judgment in the climate case. In that lawsuit initiated by Milieudefensie, the court in The Hague ruled at the end of May that the group must have reduced its CO2 emissions by 45 percent by 2030 compared to 2019. That was the first time that a company had…
Meal deliverer Deliveroo has been fined 176,000 euros by the Inspectorate SZW. The company had meals delivered by 22 foreign employees without work permits in 2018, according to an investigation by the inspectorate. Deliveroo does not see its own couriers as employees, but as freelancers. Trade unions have been conducting lawsuits for years to demonstrate…
Fewer labor migrants came to the Netherlands last year than in previous years, reports the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The main reason for this is the corona pandemic. Migrants from outside Europe in particular stayed away. As the economy was hit by the pandemic last year, there was less demand for labour. And because…
The shortages in the chip industry and investments in additional capacity are leading to high demand for ASML chip machines. The order book of the chip machine manufacturer from Veldhoven doubled in the past quarter to 17.5 billion euros in outstanding orders. Never before have so many chip machines been ordered in a quarter. “Our…
Streaming service Netflix expects the growth in the number of subscribers to slow down in the coming period as many corona measures are relaxed worldwide and competition from other streaming services is also increasing. This became clear during the presentation of the company’s quarterly figures. It added 1.5 million Netflix subscribers between April and June,…
The advice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is clear: only travel to areas with code orange if necessary. However, it is not self-evident for all travel organizations that holiday trips are canceled (free of charge). For example, holiday broker De Vakantiediscounter continues to carry out trips to the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands….
“It really concerns large amounts,” says Yvonne Willemsen in the NOS Radio 1 News. She is head of security affairs at the Dutch Banking Association. She calls the $1 billion figure “an estimate as we can see it.” She also says that it is not at all common in the sector to deposit cash. “That’s…
Last year, for the twenty-first time, the Netherlands was the largest exporter of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer in the European Union. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this. Worldwide, the Netherlands is number two, after Mexico. But competition is lurking. In 2020, more than 2 billion euros of beer was exported from the Netherlands. Since the turn…