Regulation Watch: Dutch lawmakers approved new powers for the ACM to investigate smaller takeovers, while raising the merger-control threshold to €75m from €30m—aimed at tightening oversight without slowing dealmaking. Energy Transition Complexity: Europe’s renewables build-out is now colliding with operations reality: millions of household devices (solar, heat pumps, EVs, batteries) create a far more complex grid-management challenge than simply adding capacity. AI & Data Centres: Alibaba says it will set up first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands and expand data-centre capacity across Europe and the Middle East, as AI compute demand keeps pushing infrastructure. Industrial Automation: Helicon emerged from stealth with $16m to automate high-volume carbon-fibre composites manufacturing, targeting shorter lead times. Logistics Tech: GXO is piloting a global labor management system across sites including the Netherlands, aiming to standardize workforce planning and boost productivity. Dutch Business & M&A: Arcadis hit back in the WSP takeover standoff, while WSP later withdrew its offer—keeping Dutch engineering deal dynamics in focus. Local Impact: A major leak into Curaçao’s online gambling ownership shows hundreds of owners behind nearly 650 licensed operators, with notable European concentration and 13 Dutch-linked owners.