Dutch parliament ratifies CETA
This week, the Dutch Senate approved CETA, the trade agreement between the European Union and Canada, with a very small majority (40 for; 35 against). This means that the Dutch parliament has ratified the trade…
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Digital Services Act negotiations show the urgency to open up EU policy-making
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Ensure effective enforcement of the Digital Markets Act
The EU has set a high standard for platform regulation. If properly enforced, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), together with other digital regulation in the pipeline, will be landmark…
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Shareholder remuneration up by 500% in 20 years
Over the last 20 years, Dutch listed companies have spent more and more of their (borrowed) money on distributing profits to shareholders. Debt increased, investments stagnated and wages fell behind. Publication / June 15, 2022…
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Shareholders first
How companies became dividend machines
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The Energy Charter Treaty
An obstacle to the energy transition
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Testing the occupation
Identifying mislabelled food from illegal Israeli settlements in European supermarkets through isotopic testing
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At least sixteen Gazprom subsidiaries in the Netherlands
The largest gas company in the world, Gazprom, has at least sixteen Dutch subsidiaries in Amsterdam, SOMO-research finds. The Russian state-owned company falls outside the current sanction rules, which means that Gazprom’s Dutch letterbox companies…
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Enabling Putin’s war
The ties between Amsterdam’s financial centre and Gazprom
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Pay and the pandemic
The decoupling of Dutch boardroom pay from performance during the Covid-19 outbreak
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CEO salaries rise sharply despite corona crisis
Despite the corona crisis, the incomes of CEOs and other top managers of the biggest publicly listed Dutch companies have increased, according to research by the University of Groningen and SOMO. Even though average company…
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Financially strong investor ready to take the Dutch housing market by storm
Blackstone has more than US$ 46.1 billion ready to buy worldwide real estate such as offices and residential property. Currently Blackstone is a small player in the Netherlands, but the company has the potential to…
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Blackstone as new landlord
How large investors are gaining ground on the Dutch housing market
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Creating a digital level playing field
A handful of tech companies have become global gatekeepers to the modern world. Companies including Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft set the terms of communication for billions of internet users and have a sphere of…
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Delivery companies need more ambitious goals to help curb global warming
Despite the fact that the fastly growing e-commerce sector has a big and increasing impact on global warming, six leading delivery companies to date have failed to formulate goals that are sufficiently ambitious. In “Parcel…
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Parcel delivery on a warming planet
The efforts and ambitions of six companies
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On the legitimacy of the Inclusive Framework from a Global South perspective
Report on the BEPS Inclusive Framework of the OECD
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Powerful financial industry lobby group frustrates structural debt relief for poorest countries
As the world’s poorest countries face dangerously high debt burdens, a powerful global interest group of the financial industry, the International Institute of Finance (IIF), frustrates structural debt relief initiatives by the G20. This is…