The Netherlands needs to invest 2 to 3 billion euros extra per year in mobility, to maintain and expand the country’s networks, according to municipalities, provinces, and the mobility sector. Without that investment, the mobility infrastructure will crumble and the whole of the Netherlands will be stuck, they said in a warning to the national government on Wednesday, the Telegraaf reports.
Hundreds, maybe thousands more farmers in the Netherlands are working without a permit to emit nitrogen, according to NRC. These are farmers who were already operating when the European nitrogen laws changed in 2009 and never applied for the required nature permits. The agriculture sector and politics refer to these farmers as “interims,” according to the newspaper.