Paolo Maria Pavan The Dutch Paradox: Wealth Now, Weakness Later The Netherlands looks good in pictures. Especially when the picture is taken at just the right angle. The Monitor Brede Welvaart and SDG’s 2025 , delivered to Parliament on Accountability Day, offers ... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 21, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan May 20, 2025 – Amsterdam Stock Exchange: The Market Held Its Breath Today When Markets Don’t Shout, Listen Harder Today, the Amsterdam AEX Index closed at 931.05 , inching up by +1.53 points (+0.16%) . It wasn’t a celebration. It wasn’t a collapse. It was something far more... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE May 20, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Why the Dutch Feel Stuck: The Shocking Truth Behind -37 Consumer Confidence The Dinner Table Barometer Picture yourself at a Dutch dinner table in May 2025. The mood? Measured. You pass the potatoes, but the conversation circles—quietly—around rising prices, future plans, and... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 20, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan 2.5% Tax, €14.50 Surcharge—Is Amsterdam Now Pricing Out Its Future? Loving a Place to Death: When Hospitality Turns Hostage Amsterdam did not quietly pass through 2024. Twenty million visitors crossed its threshold—a number that should not reassure, but alarm. This is... DUTCH ECONOMY Linda Pavan May 20, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan May 19, 2025 – Amsterdam Stock Exchange: Flat Lines in a City of Canals The Art of Stillness in the Age of Signals Today, the Amsterdam AEX closed at 929.52 points—a barely-there slip of -0.15% from Friday. On paper, it’s a session few will remember. But if you’ve learned... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE May 19, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan ESG for Dutch Micro and Small Businesses: A Straight Talk from the Finance Kitchen Table Sit Down, Let’s Make Sense of ESG—Together After 25 years working in finance and tax here in the Netherlands, there’s one thing I know: most rules have a reason, and most fears are just questions wait... COMPLIANCE Linda Pavan May 19, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Retail Isn’t Recovered—It’s Cornered. When 0.9% Becomes 3.1%, You Should Ask Why. Let’s not celebrate too soon. Yes, the Dutch retail sector posted a 3.1% turnover growth in Q1 2025. That’s the headline. But as anyone who’s studied the anatomy of a balance sheet knows— what grows c... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 19, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan May 16, 2025 – Amsterdam Stock Exchange: The Market’s Poker Face Today, the AEX Index closed at 930.37—up 0.15%. Not a rally, not a retreat. Just a nod. A quiet mark on the wall of a hallway we’re all walking through. The trading range was narrow—928.33 to 934.55—o... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE May 16, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Rethinking Recovery: The Netherlands Adjusts Its Resilience Compass The Recovery Plan as a Living System In governance, plans are often treated like relics—fixed, codified, admired, and rarely questioned. But real resilience demands evolution. This week, the European ... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 16, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan From Liability to Leverage: The Netherlands Takes a Structural Step Forward on Employee Stock Options There are rare moments when a fiscal reform signals more than a technical correction. It signals alignment—between policy and practice, ambition and architecture. The Dutch government’s decision to ov... Linda Pavan TAX May 16, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan May 15, 2025 – Amsterdam Stock Exchange: Caution in a Crisp Suit The Amsterdam AEX Index closed today at 925.48, posting a discreet retreat of –0.40%. Neither drama nor delusion—just the careful tread of capital across a tight corridor: 921.18 at the floor, 929.27 ... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE May 15, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan The Silence of 0.1% — What April’s Unemployment Rate Is Really Telling Us A Quiet Change in a Noisy World When I was twelve, I watched my grandfather polish a brass compass in his study. He told me something I didn’t understand at the time: “The world doesn’t break with ear... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 15, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
