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• Europe puts $2.3 trillion on line for banks
The amount — pledged by Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Austria — dwarfs the $700 billion rescue package put together by U.S. President Bush’s administration, although not all the European money will necessarily ...
• Animals have personalities, too
The answer, says Franz Weissing of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, comes down to costs and benefits. A group in which both rigid and flexible personality types co-exist makes for an optimal system, his model shows. The field of animal ...
• Sail away on Holland America’s new ship
Expect a vacation fit for a king — or queen — aboard the Eurodam, a fitting expectation given that the ship was named by its godmother, Queen Beatrix, of the Netherlands. With a passenger capacity of 2,104, Eurodam is the largest of Holland ...
• Smiling Parisians show you their city, for free
Similar programs are also found in several U.S. states, in Australia, Britain, Argentina, Canada and the Netherlands. A not-for-profit, the Paris Greeters was launched in July 2007 with help from the city government. "City officials wanted to change ...
• EU reaches agreement on tackling bank crisis
By allowing all EU nations to raise their savings deposit coverage to euro100,000 that level playing field has been restored, said Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos. He said the Netherlands would raise its coverage to euro100,000. "This is a signal of ...