Good morning! It goes Dutch people financially for the wind. They find themselves. In 2024, 79 percent of people aged 18 and older were satisfied with their financial situation, For example, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported This morning.
Satisfaction among Dutch people with their own finances has risen since 2013: then this percentage was 68 percent. In 2021 this was greatest with 82 percent, to fall to 77 percent in 2022. Logical – The inflation ghost appeared in 2022. It seems that a round wage increases has reduced the financial worries. 54 percent of the respondents said they were not worried about their financial future. Last year this was 50 percent.
What we saw further in the press:
- Labor mediators and fraud experts signal an increase in fake reports about vacancies, writes Het Financieele Dagblad. Dupers are lured with fake lanes and then she is stealed money. The fraud help desk has been reported to 1.8 million euros in damage.
- Piece resolution: delivery bike maker Ebike4deliver Is going to move its production to the Netherlands – from Poland (nowadays no longer such a low -wage country), reports ANP.
- South Korea sends a plane to the United States to pick up around 300 employees who were arrested at a Large-scale raid in a Hyundai-LG battery factory In the state of Georgia (Wall Street Journal).
- Today we keep the political situation in Paris in mind. Prime Minister Bayrou’s government can fall for austerity plans that does not like a majority of parliament. But France has to cut back to reduce the national debt (113 percent of GDP last year). Bondgeggers are becoming impatient: the country now pays almost as much interest as Italy.
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