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Compensate clients for rip-off policies, watchdog tells banks
The financial services authority AFM wants banks and insurance companies to compensate clients if it turns out that they have been sold products which are 'not in their interest', the Financieele Dagblad writes on Friday.
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ABP, other big pension funds, warn of need to cut payouts
A number of big Dutch pension funds, including civil service fund ABP and healthcare worker fund PGGM, fear they may have to cut payouts in 2012, the Financieele Dagblad reports, without quoting sources.
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Third coalition failure will hurt next prime minister, says queen's rep
A third failure in efforts to form a new government will hurt the the new prime minister, the queen's new negotiator Herman Tjeenk Willink warned on Tuesday.
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Spending power under pressure
Dutch workers are starting to feel the pinch in their pockets because inflation is outstripping pay rises, the national statistics office CBS said on Wednesday.
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Corneille to be buried in same cemetery as Van Gogh
Dutch avant-garde artist Corneille, who died last weekend in Paris, will be buried in the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise, the Volkskrant said on Wednesday.
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Anne Frank tree parts to go to Jewish museums
The owner of the horse chestnut tree written about by Anne Frank in her World War II diary wants to distribute some of the remains to Jewish museums in Berlin, New York, Tel Aviv and Amsterdam, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday.
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Police 'spy' gets community service
A former policeman who passed on information from Dutch police files to the Moroccan embassy has been sentenced to 240 hours community service by a court in The Hague.
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Dutch tanker carrying pig manure explodes in Germany
A Dutch tanker with 20 tonnes of pig manure on board has exploded in the German city of Cologne splattering a number of houses and cars, news agency ANP reports, quoting a German news site.
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Arrests as European piracy network shut down
Police in the Netherlands and 13 other European countries on Tuesday launched a series of raids against an online film pirating network, closing down 48 websites, according to media reports.
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Right wing cabinet will raise speed limit to 130 kph
A new right-wing government will raise the national speed limit to 130 kph, the Telegraaf reports on Wednesday.
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