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Fault at Bonus cards Albert Heijn, customers are missing a discount

Albert Heijn is experiencing a malfunction on Thursday that is preventing bonus discounts from being processed correctly. This is confirmed by a spokesperson for the supermarket chain following reports by the AD. Due to the malfunction, bonus cards do not always work. It is possible that customers will not receive a discount on bonus products. […]

Economics

Web store Shein will test more products after warning EU

Webwinkel SHEIN, bekend van goedkope fast fashion, gaat meer tests uitvoeren om de veiligheid en kwaliteit van zijn producten te verbeteren. De stap volgt op een waarschuwing van de Europese Unie. In een reactie op de waarschuwing zegt SHEIN dit jaar 2,5 miljoen productveiligheids- en kwaliteitstests te laten uitvoeren. Vorig jaar waren dat er nog

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Judge puts Stripe through import duties Trump, but he immediately appeals

All import duties that President Trump has imposed on many dozens of countries in recent months are unconstitutional. That is the conclusion of an American federal court. But that ruling has no consequences for the time being, because the White House immediately appealed. Since his self-proclaimed ‘Liberation Day’ at the beginning of April, Trump imposed

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ABN AMRO pays a fine of 14 million euros for complicity tax evasion

ABN AMRO must pay a fine of 14 million euros for complicity in tax evasion. The Public Prosecution Service accuses a foreign bank in this case of intentionally filing incorrect corporate tax returns. The Public Prosecution Service is summoning the American bank Morgan Stanley for this. Research by the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD)

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ABN AMRO pays a fine of 14 million euros for tax evasion

ABN AMRO must pay a fine of 14 million euros for complicity in tax evasion. The Public Prosecution Service accuses the bank of deliberately filing incorrect corporate income tax returns. Research by the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) shows that the Dutch subsidiary of a foreign bank filed five corporate income tax returns between

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Conversations EU and Emirates can lead to the first major trade agreement

The European Union is holding formal talks with the United Arab Emirates on free trade. In the initial phase, they are discussing, among other things, lower levies. It would be the EU’s first major trade agreement with a country in the Gulf region. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, speaks of an

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Advisory body SER wants safer workplace with more attention for women

Working conditions need to be improved in many cases. Advisory body SER advocates for more modern occupational health and safety rules, more attention to risks, and more work-related care. The standards should also not only take into account adult white men. “There are still companies where people work in unhealthy and unsafe conditions,” writes the

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Taxi drivers in Athens put down work, tourists experience nuisance

Thousands of taxi drivers in Athens will go on strike for two days starting Wednesday. They are protesting against the policy at the airport in the Greek capital. Tourists are expected to be particularly inconvenienced. Metros and buses will continue to run, but will likely be overcrowded. The taxi drivers are protesting against, among other

Economics

The Netherlands has more than a million plug cars for the first time

The Netherlands had more than a million plug-in cars for the first time at the end of the first quarter. More than one in ten passenger cars is now a plug-in car. And the number of gasoline cars is decreasing. At the end of the first quarter, there were 594,000 fully electric cars and 410,000

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Webwinkel Temu sees profit halve during trade war

The turnover of the parent company of the Chinese webshop Temu has fallen sharply in the past quarter. The company is struggling with competition in the domestic market, but is also suffering from the trade war between China and the United States. The profit of e-commerce company PDD Holdings in the first quarter almost halved

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