Minister Ernst Kuipers of Health, Welfare and Sport at the Binnenhof on Wednesday.Image ANP – Phil Nijhuis Formally, the processing of the 2G proposals will be postponed for at least a week. The parliamentary parties are given longer time to prepare. Until the end of next week, they can submit written questions to the Minister…
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Anyone traveling to Costa Rica can be assured of one thing: he or she will be greeted and waved goodbye with a warm ‘Pura Vida’. The words are used as we call hello and goodbye. While it is actually not a saying, but a way of life. It stands for the way Costa Ricans live:…
It is almost like looking into a crystal ball. When will the chip industry really get over the low point of the shortages? The consequences were visible everywhere last year: what started mainly with the car industry, spread like an oil slick to just about everything that needs a chip. There are now signs of…
Edward Leung in 2016 in Hong Kong.Image AFP Leung was a rising star within the Hong Kong protest movement. The activist, a philosopher graduate, was convicted in 2018 of assaulting police during a demonstration in 2016. Before his arrest, he was a spokesman for the pro-independence group Hong Kong Indiginous and in 2016 ran for…
Interest rates on the European capital market are rising. Ten-year government bond yields have passed the zero limit, ending a long period of extremely low and almost continuous negative yields. Interest rates are also rising in the United States. The cause of the rate hike is investor concerns about high inflation and central banks’ plans…
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Tiredness and tantrums in children and a lot of frustration in parents and carers. Laura Hannah, a flight attendant who has worked for more than six years at the Emirates airline, has seen it all up close. Hannah tells the British Metro what parents/carers should pay attention to when flying with little ones. After all,…
Relatives of the attacks on July 22, 2012 are lighting a candle at the island of Utøya.Image AFP Breivik, who is now 42, received the then-current maximum sentence in Norway in 2012 for his actions, 21 years. That period can be extended indefinitely if the court finds that it still poses a danger. He may…
Lotte cannot look far ahead. “I have to see how I manage every month. Because of covid I made a payment arrangement with the landlord, which was very nice. But you also have to pay that off in the end. I borrowed money for this because I became nervous about debts. I get from my…
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Is cod still possible? This fish (just like a lot of other species) is now having a very hard time, but at the same time it is sold everywhere, with and without a quality mark. Pretty confusing when you’re in the supermarket. The site goodfish.nl provides some guidance; thanks in part to the handy VISwijzer,…
Customers at the Jumbo in Waddinxveen. Daily groceries have become more expensive.Statue Guus Dubbelman / de Volkskrant A kilo of ready-made nasi goreng, a bunch of bananas, coffee, peanuts and a can of butter beans. Gabi Tüski-Knol has just paid for the groceries in her basket at the Jumbo branch in the center of Waddinxveen….