The proposed Dutch institution would combine existing investment bodies with €3.3 billion in new government capital to help innovative businesses secure finance. Legislation is still needed.
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The Netherlands and ten other EU countries are asking the European Commission to amend a rule which they say can exclude healthy startups and scale-ups from funding. They believe the latest Commission proposal does not go far enough.
Employees left their jobs less often in 2025 than in 2022. Among those who left, however, business-related economic reasons or a workplace dispute were more often cited as the main reason, according to new CBS figures.
Of the people whose businesses went bankrupt in 2019, 8.6 per cent fell into problem debt in 2022. The proportion was also relatively high among people who appeared before a criminal court, CBS reports.
The annual value added by Dutch infrastructure rose from around €39 billion to €116 billion between 1995 and 2024, CBS reports. That tripling is not adjusted for inflation. Its share of the overall economy, by contrast, fell.
The Dutch state has reached a provisional agreement on an indirect 70 per cent stake in EPZ, the operator of Borssele nuclear power station. The government aims to make extended operation possible through the acquisition, but it is not yet certain that the power station will remain open beyond 2033.
Households’ net disposable income grew by 0.7 per cent over the four quarters ending in June 2026, after adjustment for inflation. This is shown by provisional CBS figures. The growth rate is lower than for the first quarter.
From May to August 2026 inclusive, 123,930 offences involving the ban on mobile phone use on the roads were detected, 56.2 per cent more than a year earlier. According to Rijksoverheid, that increase is entirely due to the use of phone-detection cameras.
The King, Prime Minister Rob Jetten and State Secretary Eric van der Burg will visit Sint Eustatius on 16 November to commemorate the 250th anniversary of The First Salute: the gun salute with which the island greeted an American ship in 1776.