In the De Broeikas section, climate reporter Jeroen Kraan writes every week about what strikes him. This week: Negative electricity prices are a good reason to throw a bread in the oven, not to sprinkle subsidies for solar parks without storage. My solar panels enjoy the beautiful weather, just like me. And because we now […]
Catering business in and near The Hague expect much fewer guests because of the NATO summit in June. People have canceled restaurant reservations and companies fear loss of turnover, some even for weeks. The central government has called on people to avoid the Randstad from Monday 23 to Thursday 26 June due to road closures
The Organization of the Eurovision Song Contest has its own System for Collecting Money. For Example, Financier Germany Contributes Twenty Times More Than Montenegro, But This Ensures Our Eastern Neighbors A Place in the Final. The Netherlands Spends A Total of 500,000 euros Annually on the Song Contest. 250,000 euros is Paid from Tax Money
Belgian Trade Unions Are Striking Again on Tuesday, which will have consequences for international trains. Several NS International Trains Between Rotterdam and Brussels Are Canceled. The Strike Lasts from Monday 10:00 pm to Tuesday 10:00 pm. As a result, a total of twelve trains from rotterdam to brussels will be canceled and thirteen trains in
Credit Rating Agency Moody’s Downgraded the Credit Rating of the United States on Friday. The Country Has Lost Its Highest Rating Due to the Expected Higher National Debt and because it has to pay more interest. Moody’s Has Lowered the Rating From the Highest Level (AAA) to the Second Highest Level (AA1). The Reason is
Americans are deeply concerned about the economy in their country. Research from the University of Michigan shows that consumer confidence has fallen to the second-lowest point ever. The University Researches The Confidence of American Households Every Month, and Preliminary Figures for Month Show That This Confidence has Fallen to 50.8. In December 2024, Shortly After
The Plans of This Cabinet for New Nuclear Power Plants Are Encountering Obstacles. The Costs Are Billions Higher Than Expected, and the Plants Will also Go Into Operation Years later. Borssele Seems The Most Logical Location, But Even That Is Not Yet Set In Stone. A Letter to Parliament from Minister Sophie Hermans (Climate and
The Cabinet Has Decided to Freeze Only the Rents of Housing Corporation Homes. People in a social private Rental Property Can Therefore Still Be Confronted With A Rent Increase From July. Housing Minister Mona Keijzer has decided to make this distinction because, accordance to her, IT is “a technically extremely complicated exercise” to compensate the
American Companies and Citizens Bought Almost 60 percent more European Goods in March Than in the Same Month Last Year. Americans Bought A Total or 71.4 Billion Euros Worth of Goods in March, An Increase or 59 percent. This is accordance to figures released Friday by the European Statistics Office Eurostat. There was also an
The then Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Instructed Rijkswaterstaat to use Environmentally Polluting Steel Slag, after the service had stopped using the material in 2009. It had Been Found that Environmental Risks and Cracking of Roads Could Occur. When Rijkswaterstaat decided to stop using Steel Slag, A Waste Product of Tata Steel,