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Top Dutch employers to stop using disposable cups at workplaces from January 2024
1 year ago

Top Dutch employers to stop using disposable cups at workplaces from January 2024

NL Times  

A new law in the Netherlands, effective January 1, will significantly reduce the use of disposable cups at work, as revealed by an AD survey among the country's twenty largest employers. The new regulations stipulate that offices, companies, and institutions cannot use disposable cups and containers with plastic components starting January 1, 2024. Despite State Secretary Vivianne Heijnen stating that …

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Record number of 7.1 million payments made during Black Friday
1 year ago

Record number of 7.1 million payments made during Black Friday

NL Times  

The Black Friday phenomenon that spilled over from America led to significantly more additional debit card transactions on Friday. In the days following Black Friday, the company has to deliver around 2 million parcels per day, twice as many as on a normal day. According to the Dutch Payments Association, the number of debit card payments on Black Friday was …

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Dutch tax adviser handed over to U.S. authorities for tax evasion of over $100 million
1 year, 5 months ago

Dutch tax adviser handed over to U.S. authorities for tax evasion of over $100 million

NL Times  

Dutch tax adviser Frank Butselaar has been indicted in New York for plotting to hide more than $100 million from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York announced on Friday. According to the U.S Attorney’s Office, Butselaar was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, which carries …

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Dutch salvage team set to pump oil off rusting Yemen tanker
1 year, 8 months ago

Dutch salvage team set to pump oil off rusting Yemen tanker

Associated Press  

AMSTERDAM — A Dutch salvage company has reached agreement with the United Nations to pump oil from a rusting tanker off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen in a move hailed as a “critical milestone” in moves to avert a possible environmental disaster, its parent company announced Thursday. Boskalis said that its Smit Salvage subsidiary has reached agreement with the U.N. …

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Dutch gov't pushes €2 million into making period products free for more women
1 year, 8 months ago

Dutch gov't pushes €2 million into making period products free for more women

NL Times  

The Dutch government is pushing more money into fighting poverty, including 2 million euros specifically to make free menstruation products available to more women. The government is also awarding 15.8 million euros in subsidies to Stichting Voedselvangnet, the foundation that purchases and supplies food to food banks, over the next four years for the purchase of food, clothing, school supplies, …

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Streaming services must invest in Dutch series, government says
2 years, 5 months ago

Streaming services must invest in Dutch series, government says

Dutch News  

The Dutch government wants streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney to invest more of their income in the Netherlands on locally-produced series. Junior culture minister Gunay Uslu has told MPs in a briefing she would like to see streaming firms put 4.5% of their Dutch income into home grown programming, including series, films and documentaries. ‘Streaming services …

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Transfer News: Manchester United Set to Pay 30 Million Euros for Inter Milan's Denzel Dumfries
2 years, 5 months ago

Transfer News: Manchester United Set to Pay 30 Million Euros for Inter Milan's Denzel Dumfries

News 18  

After reaching an agreement with Dutch football club Feyenoord for defender Tyrell Malacia, Manchester United are reportedly set to spend €30 million for Denzel Dumfries. According to a report published by Italian outlet L’Interista, Manchester United are prepared to dish out €30 million to rope in the Dutch full-back. Inter Milan’s miserable financial situation might force them to let go …

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Dutch approve €20 million in emergency aid for Ukraine war victims
2 years, 9 months ago

Dutch approve €20 million in emergency aid for Ukraine war victims

NL Times  

The Cabinet is allocating 20 million euros for aid to refugees from Ukraine, according to Minister Liesje Schreinemacher of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. The money will go to the United Nations, which is also calling on other countries to help refugees from Ukraine. The Netherlands already sent blankets, sleeping bags and tents to Moldova, which neighbors Ukraine, on Saturday. …

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Dutch watchdog fines Apple $5.7 million again in App Store dispute
2 years, 10 months ago

Dutch watchdog fines Apple $5.7 million again in App Store dispute

The Hindu  

The Dutch antitrust watchdog on Monday fined apple Apple 5 million euros for a third time for failing to allow software application makers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods for dating apps listed in the company's App Store. The Authority for Consumers and Markets has been levying weekly fines of 5 million euros on Apple since the company …

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A year like no other: (Coronavirus free) list of top stories in 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

A year like no other: (Coronavirus free) list of top stories in 2020

NL Times  

2020 was a year unlike any other. Unprecedented low mortgage interest rates The interest rate for a ten-year mortgage with national mortgage guarantee NHG fell below 1 percent for the first time in February. Single client causes a 183-million-euro loss for ABN Amro Dutch bank ABN Amro took a 183-million-euro blow to its profits after a single US client failed …

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