- The Netherlands continues to insist on its refusal to help Italy and Spain by means of gifts. Together with Austria, Sweden and Denmark, our country is willing to provide loans, reports the FD.
- The French government's crisis measures to help the country through the coronavirus crisis have so far cost 450 billion euros, around 20 percent of GDP, French Finance Minister Bruno le Maire said. said on BFM TV.
- According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office the German economy shrank by 2.2 percent in the first quarter, the biggest decline since the credit crisis in 2009.
- Medical devices, such as face masks, should be made in European factories again. This is what surgeon Joost van der Sijp, co-founder of Greencycl, advocates. on BNR. Greencycl proposed commissioned by the AD that almost half of the face masks used in nursing homes are unsafe.
- MKB-Nederland, ONL and Koninklijke Horeca Nederland want the government to reimburse the costs of paying the statutory transition compensation for struggling SME companies. Trade union FNV calls this plan on RTL Z non-negotiable.
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