The prices of existing owner-occupied homes continue to rise. The number of homes sold rose by a third in June, and the average price is 474,234 euros, which is 9 percent more than a year earlier. “Getting closer and closer to half a million”. The price also increased compared to the previous month. Prices rose […]
More and more Dutch households are storing solar panel stream in a home battery for own use. Suppliers and branch organizations see the demand for home batteries increasing now that the netting scheme for the return of electricity ends. The expensive home battery remains unreachable for many Dutch people. You will now come across roofs
More and more EU countries are willing to make more serious countermeasures such as negotiations with the United States about a trade agreement on nothing. Various diplomats report this to news service Reuters . Brussels would like to get his ‘Bazooka’ from the stable to focus on American tech companies. Among other things, Germany would
Stellantis, the company behind Fiat, Opel, Alfa Romeo and Peugeot, dived deep into the red in the first half of 2025. Under the line, a net loss of 2.3 billion euros was released, among other things because of the American import duties. These taxes make the cars more expensive for American car drivers, who may
Budget airline Ryanair has more than doubled its profit in the past quarter. This was mainly due to significantly higher ticket prices. The Irish airline also carried more passengers. Profit for the past quarter came in at almost 820 million euros, compared to 360 million euros a year earlier. According to Ryanair, ticket prices were
The Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced the start of construction of the world’s largest hydropower plant in Tibet on Saturday. The dam is expected to produce three times as much electricity as the Three Gorges Dam. However, neighboring countries India and Bangladesh are concerned. The opening ceremony took place in Linzhi, a town on the
The struggling bus manufacturer Ebusco is postponing the publication of its results for the first half of 2025. The annual figures for 2024 have still not been audited by an accountant. Therefore, the Dutch company is not yet reporting later figures either. According to the listed company from Deurne, steps have been taken to complete
The number of pigs in the Netherlands is below ten million for the first time since the 1970s. This continues a downward trend. The number of cattle has also decreased further in the past year. The Netherlands had 5.1 percent fewer pigs in 2025 than a year earlier, according to preliminary figures from the CBS
Okay, here’s the extracted, translated, and formatted content: Many students graduate this summer and start working. But when paying off their student debt, NU.nl readers sometimes get lost in the details. When is the best time to pay off, considering interest and inflation? Experts advise. A student debt is a bit more annoying than a
Payback, I wrote 3.5 years ago, has become inevitable due to the arrival of the electric car. The reason is simple: whoever fills gasoline actually pays a load per kilometer, in the form of excise duty. That counts a lot. In 2023, for example, the average motorist paid almost 700 euros. Electric drivers pay much