Will our economy weather corona better or worse than that …

Now that the Netherlands has also measured the economic damage caused by the corona virus in the second quarter, it is time to draw up a European balance. And this shows that, despite a contraction that reversed the growth of the past 11 years, our country ends somewhere in the middle bracket. As is often the case.

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Let’s start with some figures: the economy in our country declined by 12.2 percent in the second quarter. We are doing less well than the Netherlands (-8.5 percent) and Germany (-10.1 percent) …

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