Much of major industry in foreign hands
Some 58% of major industrial firms in the Netherlands were in foreign hands in 2005, just 6 percentage points up on the 1994 figure, the national statistics office CBS said on Monday. Foreign firms were responsible for half of all job in industry, up 10 percentage points on 1994.
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