This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €20 million venture debt financing agreement with Dutch biotechnology company Solynta, to accelerate the development of potato varieties with enhanced resistance to disease and resilience to climate change. Solynta will use the EIB support for its research into […]Netherlands: European boost for global food security: Dutch biotech Solynta gets €20 million EIB backing for highly disease resistant potato varieties
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This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €20 million venture debt financing agreement with Dutch biotechnology company Solynta, to accelerate the development of potato varieties with enhanced resistance to disease and resilience to climate change. Solynta will use the EIB support for its research into […]Could a webcam-on policy violate human rights? A Dutch court thinks so
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Spencer Feingold, Digital Editor, Public Engagement, World Economic Forum Over two years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced companies to embrace remote work, employees and employers are still navigating workplace and private life boundaries. This month, in the Netherlands, […]This Dutch scheme is using free trees to tackle climate change
December 7, 2021 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Replanting saplings and shrubs could provide a free and sustainable source of trees.A Dutch organisation has already replanted 250,000 trees and aims to spread its circular forest-management initiative throughout Europe.The EU aims to plant 3 billion more trees by 2030. Planting more trees is […]These Dutch cities will allow only zero-emission deliveries by 2025
April 13, 2021 by 4 Comments
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Douglas Broom, Senior Writer, Formative Content If online deliveries continue with fossil-fuel trucks, emissions will increase by a third.So cities in the Netherlands will allow only emission-free delivery vehicles after 2025.The government is giving delivery firms cash help […]This Dutch floating village could help tackle city-density and sea-level challenges
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Victoria Masterson, Senior Writer, Formative Content Living on water is a reality for more than 100 people in Amsterdam’s Schoonschip neighbourhood.It has 46 sustainable homes across 30 water plots.Population density and climate change is increasing interest in alternative […]State aid: Commission approves €1.5 billion Dutch scheme to compensate public transport companies for damages suffered due to coronavirus outbreak
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a Dutch scheme of around €1.5 billion to compensate companies providing regional and long-distance public passenger transport services in the Netherlands for the damage suffered due to the coronavirus outbreak and the emergency containment […]These Dutch tomatoes can teach the world about sustainable agriculture
November 28, 2019 by 2 Comments
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Kate Whiting, Senior Writer, Formative Content To feed 10 billion people by 2050 at the current level of food production efficiency, we’d have to clear most of the world’s forests. The Netherlands is a leader in efficient and […]The ‘yellow vests’ undermined Macron in France and the EU
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Paris was a blockaded city this weekend. The government was forced to close down all the main tourist sites in the French capital. The Eiffel Tower, the Opera of Paris, the Louvre museum and tens of other sites which may attract the fury of the ‘yellow vest’ movement are closed and heavily guarded. Galerie Lafayette […]
