Political developments in Europe also stimulated cross-border trade. The lifting of the Iron Curtain in 1989 provided the impetus for further integration in Europe. The Maastricht Treaty was signed in ...

© CBS / Nikki van Toorn There has been a slight fall in business confidence for the first time in over a year. Business confidence stood at -5.4 at the start of Q1 ...

These are the most recent figures on this topic. View the previous figures here. Dutch manufacturers were equally negative in January as they were in December, according to Statistics Netherlands (CBS ...

These are the most recent figures on this topic. View the previous figures here. © ANP / Arie Kievit The economic picture was less negative in January than it was in ...

Vera Toepel continues: ‘CBS recognises the opportunities of AI but is also mindful of the risks. Our priorities are always reliability and objectivity, and so we will only use AI when that can be done ...

Output prices are generally strongly influenced by the price of crude oil. In December, a barrel of crude cost nearly 70 euros, 1.5 percent less than in December 2023. In November, the average price ...

Majority work full-time, mostly on a flexible employment contract The largest number of Ukrainian refugees were employed as temporary workers (38 percent), on-call workers (24 percent), or had another ...

On 31 January 2025 Statistics Netherlands (CBS) published, for the first time, a figure on renewable cooling in the Netherlands according to the definitions of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive.

In 2024, as in most years, the third quarter saw the most flights and the highest passenger numbers. This is the period that includes the school holidays and holidays in the construction sector.

These are the most recent figures on this topic. View the previous figures here. © CBS / Nikki van Toorn Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports that retail turnover ...

Among people arriving in the Netherlands from non-EU countries, the number of Syrians increased the most. Most Syrians arriving in the Netherlands were refugees who applied for asylum. Nearly 24 ...

With the installed cooling capacity, the average efficiency, the number of cooling degree days and the formulas in the Annex to the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/759, the amount of renewable cooling ...