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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Dutch manufacturers were equally negative in January as they were in December, according to Statistics Netherlands (CBS ...

© 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 ...

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 ...

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.

The only growth in total gross cereal yield was seen in barley, which amounted to 242 thousand tonnes (up by 3.8 percent). In 2024, this was 242 thousand tonnes (up by 3.8 percent). Just as with wheat ...

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 ...

As in previous years, the majority of asylum applications in 2024 were submitted by people from Syria - a total of 11.5 thousand. After Syria, the second-highest number of asylum requests came from ...