More than 33,000 Citroëns in the Netherlands may have airbag problems. The manufacturer has therefore recalled the cars. Does this also apply to your Citroën? It concerns the types of Citroën C3 (second generation) and DS3 (first generation), which were produced between 2009 and 2019 and have a Takata-airbag. The manufacturer asks the owners of […]
EU member states are no longer allowed to purchase medical goods from China if the value of the purchase exceeds 5 million euros. This has been decided by the European Commission in response to China’s exclusion of European medical products. The restriction now imposed by the EU applies to government purchases and covers all medical
The American President Donald Trump is postponing the forced sale of TikTok for the third time. The Chinese parent company ByteDance gets another ninety days for a deal with the United States. It is the third time he has done that. The first time was on January 20. TikTok had then just been briefly offline
There should be 100,000 new homes built in the Netherlands every year, and there are enough opportunities to achieve that sustainably, the advisory council Rli concludes. Builders want to switch from steel to wood, but the government remains silent. A new construction crisis is looming. “A rapid shift to building homes with sustainable materials is
Autofabrikant Stellantis roept 33.260 Citroën-eigenaren in Nederland op om hun auto per direct niet meer te gebruiken. Bepaalde Citroën-types hebben problemen met de airbag. De oproep volgt op een ongeluk in Frankrijk vorige week, waarbij een vrouw overleed. Het gaat om de auto’s van het type Citroën C3 (tweede generatie) en de DS3 (eerste generatie)
The 38-year-old Olaf H., who attempted to blackmail Frits van Eerd two years ago, was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday. A friend of H., who helped with the attempt to blackmail the former Jumbo boss, received a one-year prison sentence, among other things. That was the verdict of the court in Den
Steeds meer werknemers ervaren een gebrek aan voldoening of uitdaging. Het verzuim vanwege een zogeheten bore-out is sinds 2021 zo’n vijf keer zo hoog geworden. In 2024 telde Arbo Unie 5,5 keer zoveel verzuimdagen door bore-outklachten als in 2021, meldt de dienst. Bij een bore-out is er sprake van een langdurig gebrek aan stimulatie op
The regulator ACM has received hundreds of complaints in the past six months about fraudulent telephone sellers of home batteries. The sellers put people under pressure to sign a digital signature. This often involves large sums of money, which must be repaid via a loan. The telephone sellers use different company names or say they
The average WOZ value of homes in the Netherlands this year is approximately 398,000 euros. This is an increase of 5 percent compared to 2024. As a result, many households are again paying higher local taxes than a year earlier. The WOZ value is an estimate by the municipality: the amount that a home would
The wages in new collective labor agreements (cao’s) have risen by an average of 4.1 percent in the first half of 2025. This is significant, but the FNV trade union is not satisfied, according to an evaluation of the first six months of the cao season. FNV still demands a 7 percent increase at the