Het uitblijven van macro-economische cijfers uit de VS door de sluiting van de federale overheid zorgt voor vreemde correlaties op de financiële markten. Vorige week vluchtten beleggers massaal naar traditionele veilige havens zoals goud en de Zwitserse frank.
As the Netherlands prepares for national elections on 29 October 2025, political parties face mounting budgetary challenges and complex policy priorities. Taxation plays a central role in many party programmes, with innovation-related tax incentives regularly subject to political debate. With coalition negotiations looming, the future of these incentives will depend on how innovation policy is weighed against broader policy and budgetary goals.
The outgoing cabinet wants companies working on sensitive public contracts to comply with stricter security requirements in the future. The reason for this is the growing risk to national security. These new requirements will be included in the General Security Requirements for Central Government Contracts (Algemene Beveiligingseisen voor Rijksoverheidsopdrachten) (“ABRO”). The Council of Ministers intends to approve the requirements at the end of 2025. The new rules will then come into force immediately.
The EU Green Deal continues to be reshaped through a series of legislative revisions. One of the revisions relates to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). As a short recap, early 2025, the European Commission published the two “Omnibus” packages, intended to adjust both timelines and certain substantive obligations across the EU Green Deal frameworks (see i and ii).
De dollar beleefde zijn beste week in maanden doordat politieke zorgen de euro onder druk zetten. Laat op vrijdag zorgde de hernieuwde handelsoorlog tussen de VS en China echter voor turbulentie op de risicomarkten.
Caterpillar wanted to abolish its existing work-from-home policy, but is not allowed to implement this decision until it has obtained the consent of the Works Council. This was the ruling of the sub district court of Oost-Brabant on September 15, 2025.
While the notion that men and women should earn equal pay for performing the same work has long been enshrined in both domestic and international law, the gender pay gap remains an intractable challenge.
Our international team has developed a practical guide that allows users to navigate different European jurisdictions, identifying medicines subject to supply restrictions, and understand manufacturers’ obligations during shortages or product withdrawals.
In this post, we discuss the Amsterdam Flip; the restructuring of a corporate group by topping it up with an Dutch Limited Liability Holding Company to act as a Netherlands-based Group HQ of Corporate Holding vessel. Such a Dutch-topped structure has proven a recipe for success for companies looking to attract new Capital and Consumer Markets. The Netherlands’ legal & finance industry is very mature and developed and has a demonstrated history of legal certainty, institutional oversight and tax efficiency while offering access to the vast EU consumer market – which investors appreciate. Allow us to walk you through the considerations behind and pathways to The Amsterdam Flip!
The federal government is set to shut down at midnight tomorrow unless lawmakers reach a last-minute funding deal to delay the deadline and buy more time to negotiate a full agreement.