The current Section 3 capital gains tax, or savings tax, “still violates the treaty’s prohibition on discrimination and the fundamental right to property,” according to the Supreme Court. According to De Vries, this is good news for the more than two million Dutch people who have to face the tax. “Their rights are guaranteed,” says … Read more
The Lichtbron CBS in Buitenpost has organized talent evenings in recent weeks. For three weeks, Tuesday afternoons for groups 3 to 8 were all about talent. The goal was to allow students’ talents to flourish. Read more about Ghost These were mainly talents that were often not used in a subject at school. Students can … Read more
For large housing construction projects after 2030, the outgoing cabinet is analyzing six zones in the north, east and south of the country. One of the target regions is the “Frisian Cities”. These are the locations of Heerenveen, Drachten, Sneek and Leeuwarden. To combat the housing shortage in the future, the outgoing cabinet is investigating … Read more
The Dutch Health Authority (NZa) would have preferred to quietly collect detailed data from 800,000 mental health patients. Data about your mental problems, depression, disorders, addictions, but also about your sexual desires. Mental health professionals who do not provide this data could be fined, the health system regulator threatened in 2022. But things turned out … Read more
A meeting on working conditions at the Ministry of Security and Justice, a consultation on crisis management organized by Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius or a consultation with the director general of the IND: German ethical hackers could easily consult the meeting agenda of the central government thanks to a vulnerability in the Webex meeting software. German … Read more
Fans of the Dutch national team fervently hope that the Netherlands will become European football champions, but compared to fans of other countries, we prefer not to spend too much money on it. In economic terms, we are the undefeated European champion. Source link
Smit also wants to “end the Green Deal which has gone too far.” This package of measures includes, among other things, that Europe will be climate neutral by 2050. Volt wants the EU to continue to focus strongly on climate policy, including for European farmers. According to co-leader Anna Strolenberg, they are also suffering from … Read more
Hans van Dam de Burgum turns one hundred years old today. How does the indomitable tire and bakery salesman remember what life has thrown at him? “No matter how crazy he seems, sin always comes back.” Today, like every morning, Hans van Dam’s electric alarm clock rang at 7:15 sharp. The fit centenarian then gets … Read more
As a graduation project at the University of Groningen, Kylian Halmingh investigates whether people have a good time in three villages in Dantumadiel. The municipality hopes to benefit from the results of her study. Are you enjoying De Westereen, Feanwâlden and Damwâld or would you like to leave as soon as possible? Kylian Halmingh seeks … Read more
Because so many passengers use KLM planes to travel to places around the world, the Netherlands’ largest airline emits much more CO₂ than KLM had promised. This follows from research carried out by the Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) on behalf of Milieudefensie. “Partly due to KLM’s focus on these ‘diversions’, the airline will … Read more