- The RIVM reported 23,142 new positive tests on Thursday, 4,584 more than on Wednesday. This higher number is partly due to a malfunction: on average, the number of positive tests is decreasing slightly.
- Michelle Groome from the NICD Institute says in the British newspaper The Guardian that there has been an 'exponential increase' in infections with the omikron variant in South Africa in the last two weeks. People can also easily be re-infected with the omikron virus after a previous corona infection.
- Civil servants fund ABP will not increase pensions again in 2022. According to the largest fund in the Netherlands, this is unfeasible given the financial position - a policy coverage ratio that is too low. Pension premiums will also remain the same, so let ABP know.
- Unemployment in the eurozone fell by 0.1 percentage points in October to 7.3 percent. Last October, this percentage was still 8.4 percent, reports Eurostat.
- The European Commission may impose rule-of-law conditions on the payment of EU subsidies to Member States. According to the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, there is no reason to declare the so-called 'rule of law mechanism' invalid. This effectively rejects the objections of Poland and Hungary, although the final verdict will follow in January.
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