VodafoneZiggo will no longer make unsolicited calls to acquire customers. The telecom provider promises this to the regulator ACM now that an investigation has been started due to the many complaints. You can now only be called by the company if you have given permission for this. If a company wants to call you for […]
Boeing shares were worth 5 percent less at the opening of Wall Street on Thursday. Investors reacted to the crash of a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. Almost all occupants were killed. The Air India aircraft was en route to London but crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning
The value of the US dollar has fallen to its lowest level in three years. This is mainly because President Donald Trump announced new import duties on Thursday. At the end of last week, investors still had to pay 1.141 dollars for a euro. Now that is slightly more than 1.159 dollars. The American currency
The delivery of letters went worse again last year than the year before. Only 86 percent of the mail arrived on time in 2024. PostNL has thus failed to meet the legal target for the sixth year in a row. This is according to the Post and Parcel Monitor that the Netherlands Authority for Consumers
The years-long delay that grid operator TenneT is experiencing in expanding the power grid in the province of Utrecht also creates an additional risk of power outages between 2029 and 2033. Grid operators already warned about this at the end of last year. As many as 200,000 homes could be without power in the future
Companies likely received hundreds of millions of euros in coronavirus support unjustly at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the conclusion reached by employees of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), according to an article published on Thursday in economics journal ESB. The CPB employees have indications that many entrepreneurs aimed
Prices in May were on average 3.3 percent higher than a year earlier. In the Netherlands, you spent more money last month on cigarettes, meat, sugar and rent. Holidays, on the other hand, were slightly cheaper. This is according to figures from statistics agency CBS. They previously released an estimate of inflation in May based
Na maandenlange onzekerheid onder arbeidsongeschikten over hun WIA-uitkering komt het UWV deze zomer met briefpost. 220.000 mensen horen dan of hun dossier wel of niet gecontroleerd wordt, met mogelijke gevolgen voor de hoogte van hun uitkering. Het UWV heeft in de afgelopen jaren veel fouten gemaakt met de berekening van het dagloon van arbeidsongeschikten. Daardoor
The American President Donald Trump has once again lashed out at the American central bank. He reiterated on Wednesday that the Federal Reserve should lower interest rates by 1 percentage point. “Inflation figures are out and they are great! The Fed should lower interest rates by 1 percentage point,” Trump writes in capital letters on
The Dutch import of Ukrainian goods in 2024 was almost as high as in the record year 2021. If the transit to other countries is not included, the import value was even at the highest level. The Netherlands imported 2.3 billion euros worth of goods from Ukraine in 2024, reports statistics office CBS. That is