The PVV does not intend to obey the new law requiring disclosure of donations to political parties. ‘We are going to look for ways around it,’ party spokesman Hero Brinkman said during a debate on Thursday evening.
Municipalities calling for amnesty for young asylum seekers
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Minister of Immigration and Asylum Gerd Leers will shortly receive a visit from six mayors who are concerned about the fate of child asylum seekers who have lived in the Netherlands for longer than eight years and have therefore established roots here.
For the first time the Financial Markets Authority (AFM) has imposed a fine on an accountancy firm. Ernst & Young has been fined 54,450 euro for shortcomings in its auditing of the annual accounts of companies.
Teachers are clearly very upset at the government’s plans for education. Thousands of striking secondary teachers gathered in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht yesterday. According to Netherlands Railways and the teachers’ union Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOb) there were 20,000 protestors at the high point of the demonstration.
The shortage of technical personnel in the Netherlands is rising again despite the efforts of the government. The Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) estimates that there will be a shortage of 150,000 workers in 2016.
Rosenthal forces changes in critical EU statement on Israel
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26-01-2012
A critical EU statement on Israel was altered under pressure from Minister of Foreign Affairs Uri Rosenthal in Brussels at the beginning of this week, according to sources in Brussels and other European capitals.
Talks between employers and unions on new CAOs are almost at a standstill. More than 1.5 million Dutch workers, or 18% of the workforce, fall under a collective labour agreement that has expired, according to figures published yesterday by employers’ organisation AWVN, which describes the number as ‘extremely large’.
Ambassadors confronted with importance of economic diplomacy
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26-01-2012
Dutch ambassadors speed-dating with young innovative entrepreneurs at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven; visits to companies at Brainport Eindhoven, a working breakfast with employers’ leader Bernard Wientjes.
