In 2025 zijn 180 investeringsprojecten van buitenlandse bedrijven ondersteund door het Invest in Holland netwerk. Voor het eerst vormt onderzoek en ontwikkeling (R&D) de grootste categorie: 30 procent (53 van de 180 projecten) had R&D als primaire activiteit. Dit laat zien dat Nederland, ondanks druk op het vestigingsklimaat en een complexe internationale context voor buitenlandse investeringen, aantrekkelijk blijft voor bedrijven die bijdragen aan innovatie en toekomstbestendige economische groei.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - NN Group, bekend van Nationale-Nederlanden, profiteert van de hervorming van het Nederlandse pensioenstelsel. Mede daardoor is er afgelopen jaar 2,6 miljard euro aan pensioengeld ingestroomd bij de pensioentak van de verzekeraar. Topman David Knibbe zag verder groei met verzekeringen in het buitenland en wijst erop dat het door AI tegelijk lukt om kosten te verlagen.
Door de overgang naar het nieuwe pensioenstelsel zijn er meer pensioenfondsen die bij een verzekeraar als NN aankloppen om hun pensioenuitvoering te regelen, legt Knibbe uit. In totaal is NN in Nederland nu goed voor 42,6 miljard euro aan beheerd pensioenvermogen.
Verder zag de verzekeraar met name groei in Polen, Griekenland, Roemenië, Slowakije en ook Japan. Volgens Knibbe is er sinds corona meer vraag naar verzekeringen ontstaan. Hij denkt dat dit komt door een vergroot bewustzijn. "Mensen vragen zich af: wat gebeurt er allemaal als ik bijvoorbeeld ziek word?"
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het Rode Kruis waarschuwt carnavalsvierders voor een koud weekend. De hulporganisatie roept feestvierders daarom op goed op elkaar te letten. Tijdens carnaval zet het Rode Kruis meer dan 820 vrijwilligers in op bijna tachtig evenementen voor eerste hulp.
Volgens Weeronline wordt het dit weekend overdag 3 tot 4 graden en zakt de temperatuur in de nacht tot onder het vriespunt.
"Zie je een vriend plots ongecontroleerd rillen of gaat die anders ademen, dan kan er sprake zijn van onderkoeling", aldus de hulporganisatie. Het Rode Kruis raadt de carnavalsvierders aan zich warm te kleden. "Trek genoeg kleding aan en gebruik laagjes, zodat je in kleding kunt variëren. Eet voldoende, zeker als je ook alcohol drinkt", luidt het advies.
As ‘the pressure of the haircut’ enters the game’s lexicon, the extent to which football revolves around winning and losing games appears to be fading
“I don’t care about his haircut at all,” Matheus Cunha said this week. “I don’t really look at other people if they need to go to the hairdresser or not,” Bruno Fernandes said at the weekend. Michael Carrick, for his part, said he was aware of the haircut issue. But the Manchester United coach insisted it would not factor into his team’s preparations for their game against West Ham on Tuesday night.
And so, here we are. Many games of football end up being remembered for reasons far outstripping their original significance: the 1914 Christmas Truce, the 1962 Battle of Santiago, the 2020 pandemic curtain‑raiser between Liverpool and Atlético Madrid. To these we can add the Haircut Game: a mildly arresting 1-1 Premier League draw at the London Stadium that posterity will nevertheless recall as the game when a man did not get his hair cut at the end.
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Continue reading...Kevin thinks wardrobes are there for a reason, but Mabel says hangers are a hassle for a woman in a rush. You decide who deserves a dressing down
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Mabel’s clothes mountain gets in the way and sets a bad example for our sons. I call it the ‘Monster’
Kevin is exaggerating the size of the pile. I like living in organised chaos and he should accept that
Continue reading...Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world
It’s a mind-blowing idea: an economic model of the world in which every company is individually represented, making realistic decisions that change as the economy changes. From this astonishing complexity would emerge forecasts of unprecedented clarity. These would be transformative: no more flying blind into global financial crashes, no more climate policies that fail to shift the dial.
This super simulator could be built for what Prof Doyne Farmer calls the bargain price of $100m, thanks to advances in complexity science and computing power.
Continue reading...Her comments have been put through Britain’s culture war meat-grinder, but sexuality and gender is as fluid and interesting as we want it to be
Pity Olivia Colman. She didn’t want it to become the headline that she sometimes thinks of herself as a gay man – but clearly forgot how neurotic and demagogic much of the British press becomes if you say anything mildly provocative about sexuality and gender.
Here’s what happened. In an interview last week with the American LGBTQ+ publication Them, when asked about her penchant for taking roles in films featuring LGBTQ+ characters (say, The Favourite or Heartstopper), the actor said that she feels that she has a foot in various camps. “Throughout my whole life, I’ve had arguments with people where I’ve always felt sort of nonbinary … I’ve never felt massively feminine in my being female. I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes, ‘Yeah, I get that.’”
Jason Okundaye is an assistant Opinion editor at the Guardian
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Continue reading...When old school friends reunite at a funeral, they suspect foul play. Cue this frenetic, witty caper from Derry Girls’ Lisa McGee – complete with a sensational performance from Saoirse-Monica Jackson
Three middle-aged women may be all you need for anything. To run a business, raise a village, end a war, retool a civilisation, empty the loft. Even more usefully, you can make a great murder-mystery caper with them, as Lisa McGee (a fourth woman! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it) has done with her new series How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.
McGee made her name, of course, with Derry Girls – a nigh-on perfect sitcom that followed the trials and tribulations of a group of Northern Irish Catholic schoolgirls (and a beleaguered English cousin) as they went about the chaotic business of growing up in the mid-90s at the tail end of the Troubles. The main characters of the new offering don’t map precisely on to the previous one but the DNA of Derry Girls as an entity remains gloriously alive (is DNA alive? I feel a curious urge to consult Sister Michael). How to Get to Heaven has all of the verve, acuity and havoc dancing on top of the immaculate plotting that you find in McGee’s masterwork. The only difference is that one of the schoolgirls is dead. Probably. Maybe. Perhaps not.
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With every team and driver eager to tick off more laps and gather as much data as possible, there will be plenty of action on Day 2 of the first pre-season test at the Bahrain International Circuit. But who will be behind the wheel throughout Thursday’s running? Check out the complete list below...