Employers less often willing to admit to higher wage requirements

Good morning!

Today is an exciting day for An reset of the cooperation between the EU and the UK. For the first time since the United Kingdom left the European Union five years ago, there is a meeting at the highest level. The three most important EU representatives go to London to visit British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Probably to conclude deals about, among other things, defense and access for young people, writes Annemarie Kas from London.

Further in the news this morning:

• It is becoming more and more vicious during CAO negotiations In different sectors. Be employers less willing to admit to higher wage requirements of trade unions, Writes NU.nl.
• An update about De Gigantic power outages in Portugal and Spain From April: Portugal blames France, writes the British business newspaper Financial Times. The precise cause of the failure is still unknown, research will be conducted into that in the coming months. What we do know: the limited infrastructure between Spain and France by the Pyrenees leads to the Iberian peninsula being relatively poorly connected to the rest of Europe, which makes this area vulnerable for power outages. Portugal and Spain have been saying for some time that France is constantly booming new infrastructure between Spain and France, possibly to protect its nuclear energy against cheap solar power from Spain. If France did not have done that, then the failure may not have been that great, says Portugal now.
• Het Financieele Dagblad reports that budget institute Nibud it unnecessary finds to freezing rental prices within the social rent temporarily. This year’s wages would rise faster than rental prices and therefore rents remain affordable, nibud argues.
• It FD writes furthermore that the cabinet releases around 750 million euros for it greening of homes Via the National Heat Fund.