Tag: Municipalities
Library closed, or property tax increased: Utrecht municipalities struggle with government plans
Next year, Dutch municipalities will receive less money than they expected, because the government has taken 675 million euros from the municipal fund. The following year, 2026, is also called…
More tasks, less money: dissatisfaction among Utrecht municipalities about Budget Day plans
Next year, Dutch municipalities will receive less money than they expected, because the government has taken 675 million euros from the municipal fund. The following year, 2026, is also called…
Contaminated tap water: worrying levels of eternal pollutants in several municipalities
News Published on 09/19/2024 at 12:16 p.m. updated on 09/19/2024 at 12:16 p.m. Reading 2 min. Invisible but dangerous substances threaten the drinking water of several French municipalities. According to…
Utrecht urges municipalities to arrange shelter places: ‘Major concerns about lack of progress’
Utrecht – Utrecht’s King’s Commissioner Hans Oosters is going to have “an urgent discussion” with a number of municipalities, because they have not yet taken sufficient steps in arranging shelters…
Tourist tax, government-ANCI agreement: all municipalities will be able to apply it
(Finance) – Government and Anci have reached an agreement on the revision of the tourist tax. The agreement was reached during the meeting between the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchèthe…
Multimillion-dollar support for municipalities that say yes to new wind power
One billion kroner in the budget for 2025 is proposed to go to a new investment support for the electricity system that the government calls the “power lift”, compensation to…
Association of Dutch Municipalities saves bed-bath-bread
In Utrecht, there are 235 beds available in the National Aliens Facility (LVV). Six million euros are available for these beds this year, four million of which come from the…
More municipalities give priority to women exposed to violence.
It was a proposal from the Green Party in Luleå that has now led to the municipal housing company Lulebo deciding that from Monday women who have been subjected to…
Utrecht municipalities struggle with the reception of Ukrainians: ‘We cannot create space at the snap of a finger’
Since then, several organizations have called on municipalities to arrange additional shelter places. “The government must help out,” said the Red Cross. The organization saw that vulnerable Ukrainians were now…
Discarded inflatable tubes cost the municipalities millions to deal with
“A growing problem” • May become the producers’ responsibility to collect the nitrous oxide tubes Several municipalities are raising the alarm about escalating costs for handling nitrous oxide tubes. In…