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Energy company Vattenfall is lowering its energy rates below the government’s price cap for 700,000 customers from April 1, commercial director Cindy Kroon said in the AD on Tuesday. The energy supplier will lower its rates to just above the price cap, but hundreds of thousands of customers also receive a loyalty discount on the price of electricity that will …

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Decorated soldier Marco Kroon saved his neighbors' child from choking on his pancake on Saturday afternoon in his hometown of Schijndel, according to AD. He was able to help the choking boy with a "number of punches to the back" before an ambulance arrived a few minutes later, East Brabant police confirmed. "After the parents had applied the Heimlich maneuver, …

Amsterdam nightclubs that participate in a protest against coronavirus policy by opening their doors on Saturday night risk a fine of 4,500 euros, Mayor Femke Halsema wrote in a letter to a hospitality sector lobbying organization. Many Amsterdam clubs plan to open their doors on Saturday evening anyway, said Pieter de Kroon, the initiator of the campaign and chair of …

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Nightclubs throughout the Netherlands are planning to open their doors again on February 12 in protest at their continued closure because of the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Our frustration reached boiling point at the last press conference in which we were not even mentioned,’ Pieter de Kroon from Amsterdam’s Chicago Social Club told NPO radio. ‘So club owners got together to see …

Chicago Social Club owner Pieter de Kroon, like many other nightclub owners, is calling for more clarity for his business sector. Health Minister Ernst Kuipers mentioned his plan in the Tweede Kamer to investigate how the 1G access policy could help night establishments. The 1G policy, in which all visitors are tested regardless of vaccination and recovery status, could offer …

Dutch soldier Marco Kroon has been investigated by the Public Prosecutor for allegedly using violence during a secret operation in Afghanistan in 2007. Kroon, who received the Militaire Willems-Orde, was awarded the highest military award in the Netherlands, but he concealed the incident from his superiors due to its political and military sensitivity. He deliberately brought the matter to light …