Travelers are experiencing disruptions today due to the nationwide strike by NS (Dutch Railways) personnel. NU.nl readers are wondering: couldn’t the staff simply stop checking tickets for a day? The idea is that this would primarily affect the NS and not the traveler. According to some readers, it’s simple: if NS personnel would just leave […]
At the next interest rate decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) in July, it would be appropriate to insert an interest break because of all the economic uncertainty. That said Robert Holzmann, president of the Austrian Central Bank and ECB director, to television channel ORF . The ECB lowered the interest in the eurozone
Camping in the Netherlands was not much more expensive last year. Dutch campsite owners increased their prices by 5 percent in 2024. In the rest of Europe, camping became about 8 percent more expensive. A group of four people pays an average of about 36 euros for an overnight stay at a Dutch campsite, according
Women are still often offered part-time jobs, according to research by the SCP. Young people and people with a migration background are more likely to be offered a flexible contract. But due to the tightness in the labor market, this is slowly changing. Which type of contract employers offer has to do with the expectations
The American media and entertainment company Warner Bros. Discovery will split into two publicly traded companies. The streaming and film studio activities will be separated from the TV network activities. The separation should be completed by mid-2026. As a result of the change, streaming service HBO Max and news channel CNN, for example, will no
Apple has presented its new operating system for the iPhone. The new iOS version is not called iOS 19, but iOS 26, so that the software name is consistent with the upcoming year. Other Apple operating systems, such as macOS, iPadOS, tvOS and WatchOS, will also receive version 26. This breaks with Apple’s numbering until
Microsoft is releasing a portable version of the Xbox game console for the first time. This means gamers will no longer be forced to play in front of the TV, but can also game on the train, for example. The so-called ROG Xbox Ally is expected to be released later this year, Microsoft announced on
The Chinese export to the United States fell by 34.4 percent last month. That is the largest decrease since February 2020 and has everything to do with the trade war between the two countries. “The trade war between China and the US led to a significantly lower export to the US, but the damage was
The healthcare sector sees no benefit in the arrival of labor migrants to solve staff shortages, as former minister Fleur Agema (Public Health) recently suggested. Housing and language barriers, in particular, pose a problem, according to a survey by NU.nl. In addition, foreign diplomas often do not sufficiently match the requirements in our country. “The
The French Ministry of Defense has approached Renault to help with the production of drones, according to the French car manufacturer. Minister Sebastien Lecornu hopes that Renault’s knowledge will be useful in setting up production lines in Ukraine. Several discussions have already taken place between the ministry and Renault’s management, the manufacturer said in a