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AstraZeneca's Imfinzi receives EU approval, AFC Energy launches Joint venture with ICG
ShareCast
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STOCKS TO WATCH Drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Friday that its Imfinzi asset has been approved in the EU as the first and only perioperative immunotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. AZN said the approval was based on Phase III trial...
Dutch regulator approves DPG Media-RTL Nederland merger; Journalism quality must remain
NL Times
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June 27, 2025
After an extensive investigation into potential market dominance and threats to news diversity, the Dutch competition watchdog announced its conditional approval of the high-profile merger between DPG Media and RTL Nederland. The 1.1 billion euro...
Hardly any Dutch people can recognize counterfeit money: DNB
NL Times
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July 4, 2025
Despite the alleged rarity of counterfeit euros in the Netherlands, authorities are sounding the alarm over a significant rise in fake banknotes circulating in the economy and urging the public to learn how to recognize them, Trouw reports....
WATCH: Christian Horner brings a Max Verstappen super fan to the Red Bull motorhome to meet the Dutch driver
Sportskeeda
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July 5, 2025
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner brought a young superfan to the team's motorhome to meet Max Verstappen ahead of the FP2 session at the 2025 British Grand Prix. The Austrian team has been struggling to match the pace of McLaren this year...
Energy chief's price pledge as £300m Glasgow district heating scheme takes shape
The Herald (Scotland)
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June 27, 2025
Gren declared the network, which is scheduled to be operational from early 2027, will cut emissions, reduce bills, and tackle fuel poverty in a city where many people have been unable to heat their homes as energy prices have spiralled in recent...
Dutch e-VTOL sets 8-hour flight record
Defence Blog
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June 27, 2025
DeltaQuad announced that its DeltaQuad Evo unmanned aerial vehicle completed a flight lasting 8 hours and 55 seconds, setting a new endurance record for fully electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) systems. The test, conducted last weekend...
Netherlands, Belgium hand over 2 minehunters to boost Ukraine’s naval defenses
The Kyiv Independent
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June 27, 2025
The Netherlands and Belgium have delivered two minehunter vessels to Ukraine to support maritime security in the Black Sea, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans announced on June 26. "The Netherlands and Belgium are transferring two minehunters...
Dutch gov't announces AI factory in Groningen; €130 mil. investment
NL Times
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June 27, 2025
The government and the Groningen region are jointly investing 130 million euros in an AI factory, where companies and knowledge institutions can experiment with artificial intelligence. They’ve also asked Brussels for a contribution, which should...
Lack of fixed export tariff for selling surplus energy is holding back rooftop solar installations
Facilities Management Journal
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July 4, 2025
The ongoing lack of a government-backed guaranteed price for selling back surplus clean power to the UK energy grid is discouraging businesses, property firms and commercial landlords from installing solar PV systems at their properties and...
Ultrapak supplies trays for Dutch vegetable processor's new factory
Fresh Plaza
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July 3, 2025
Vegetable processor Hessing Supervers began using its brand-new production facility in the Netherlands in the spring of 2023. That went hand in hand with a major operation: relocating 15 processing lines from its existing sites to the new factory....
What has changed for Suffolk's energy infrastructure under Labour?
BBC
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Ben ParkerBBC political reporter, Suffolk ShareSave Labour pledged billions towards a new nuclear power station in Suffolk "Build baby build", said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in February while talking about energy infrastructure. A year on...
Oversupply in Murcia and the Netherlands pushes pepper prices down
Fresh Plaza
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July 3, 2025
"20% more pepper than usual in Murcia is not enough to destabilise the markets" The pepper season is fully underway in the Spanish Region of Murcia, with some excess production because of imbalances in the plantations due to abundant rainfall at...
HSM Offshore Energy Loads Out Thor Offshore Substation
Offshore Wind
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July 4, 2025
The fully assembled offshore substation for the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm has been loaded out at HSM Offshore Energy’s Schiedam yard in the Netherlands. Both the jacket and the topside are now on the barges, and the structures are being...
GelreGroen JV signs contract with Rijkswaterstaat for Dutch highway project
Yahoo Finance
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Rijkswaterstaat, the operational arm of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, has sealed a significant contract with the GelreGroen joint venture (JV) for a highway project in the Netherlands. The GelreGroen JV, comprising...
Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy do what they do best to beat fancied Dutch boat in quadruples at Henley Royal Regatta
Irish Independent
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In the quarter-final of the premier event for quadruples, the Queen Mother, the three-club crew he put together beat seeded Dutch opposition with a come-from-behind win, a Skibbereen speciality. Olympic champions O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy...
HAL set to buy VolkerWessels’ Dutch construction arm
DutchNews
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July 4, 2025
July 4, 2025 Photo: DutchNews.nlInvestment firm Reggeborgh has reached an agreement in principle to sell large parts of construction group VolkerWessels to investor HAL, in a transaction also involving HAL’s subsidiary Boskalis. The intended deal...
Dutch GDP grows 0.4% in Q1 2025, 2024 figures revised: CBS
Fibre 2 Fashion
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The Dutch economy grew by 0.4 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025 compared to the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2024, as per the second estimate by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Year-on-year (YoY), GDP expanded by 2.2 per cent, up from the initial...
Engineering goods exports dip 0.82% in May, shipments to US stay positive
The Economic Times
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June 26, 2025
New Delhi: India's engineering exports conceded a marginal 0.82% year-on-year decline to $9.89 billion in May 2025 due to a higher statistical base and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and West Asia, but its share in the country's total...
Russian use of chemical weapons against Ukraine ‘widespread’, Dutch defence minister says
The Straits Times
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July 4, 2025
THE HAGUE - Dutch intelligence agencies have gathered evidence of widespread Russian use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine, including dropping a choking agent from drones to drive soldiers out of trenches so they can be shot, the defence...
Industry Experts Highlights Okunbor’s Deepwater Exploits In His 39 Years Service In Shell
Oriental News Nigeria
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June 25, 2025
Yemisi Izuora Key oil and gas stakeholders profoundly highlighted Osagie Okunbor’s contributions to the development of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria especially Nigerian content as well as key roles in Shell’s investments in Deep-water and...