Footnote: Business climate in the Netherlands

telegraph.nl - Micro/small-scale business operators go to the food bank

telgraph.nl - NL is ideal for foreign investment

Just a tiny note on the business climate in the Netherlands, in the context of the financial crisis now gripping the Euroland, and viewed from the optic of two news item simultaneously put out by the same newspaper.

The contrast: one reports on the relatively good, yes super, conditions for foreign investors that choose to locate in the country. And the other reports that the so-called ZZP'ers, or micro- and small business holders, are now seeking unprecedented help from ... the food banks!