Economy Blog Wednesday 2 April 2025

You can’t ignore it, today is the day. Tonight Dutch time, US President Donald Trump will announce what measures the US is taking against countries that « deposited ». According to Trump. He calls it Liberation daymany see it as one escalation of a trade war.

We have the most important questions (and answers) about the import duties and other measures listen.

Further in the news this morning:

• The US relax the Rules against money laundering For American companies and citizens. That can turn out to be bad for the international fight against criminal money flows, experts fear. That writes Het Financieele Dagblad Wednesday.
• The European Commission has Fifteen car manufacturers fined Because these years conjunction In a cartel. The European branch club is also fined. In total this amounts to 458 million euros. Everything revolved around the recycling of written off cars.
• In Lyon the FD saw how a cluster originated from Pharmaceutical companies and medical-technical companies. In the Old abattoir of the city Are nearly a thousand companies that develop and market vaccines and medicines.
• It is not a mess, it is basic range. Says director Hajir Hajji van Store chain Action in De Telegraaf. In the interview she explains the Action model: if purchasing a product is too expensive, they don’t sell it. A supermarket cannot do that: it cannot decide not to sell cola anymore.
• In an extensive article, the Financial Times how Donald Trump fights with ‘Big Law’. The major law firms in the US are in an identity crisis, says the newspaper. Those who litigate hard against the State are in danger of losing a substantial part of their business.
• The FD also writes about one on Wednesday court case between three former partners of the Dutch investment company Egeria and their former employer. Egeria, former owner of NRC Media, believes that the three should not have started its own investment company.
• The Japanese game company Nintendo shows the upcoming console on Wednesday Switch 2the successor of the Switch from 2017. The presentation is done through a so -called Nintendo Direct Livestream. It is not yet known when the console will be released.