European Aircraft Industry ; Netherlands agrees to contribute 3.4 billion euros to Air France-KLM bailout

The Dutch government has reached a deal with France to contribute 3.4 billion euros ($3.8 billion) to an Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA) bailout that had strained relations between the airline group’s state shareholders, sources told Reuters.

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The Netherlands: It's officially summer in the Netherlands, with a hot, sunny week ahead

The Netherlands has a hot, sunny week ahead, with the temperature reaching as high as 32 Celsius on Thursday, according to weather forecaster KNMI.

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The Netherlands: Kurdish Iranian politician survives assassination attempt in the Netherlands: - by Wladimir van Wilgenburg

Sadegh Zarza, the 64-year-old former leadership member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), survived an assassination attempt on Saturday in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, an attack his family has blamed on the Iranian government.

Dutch police arrested a 38-year-old male Iranian national at the scene and have begun interrogating him as part of their investigation.

According to the Leeuwarden Courant, a former classmate in Iran recently called Zarza in the Netherlands and asked, as a favor, that he provide some assistance to his son who was about to begin studies in Rotterdam. Zarza agreed to meet the son at the Leeuwarden train station.

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Netherlands reports no daily deaths caused by COVID-19

The Netherlands reported zero novel coronavirus-related deaths forthe first time since March, with 69 new infections in the last 24 hours.

According to the National Institute for Public Health and theEnvironment (RVIM), only two more people diagnosed with COVID-19 wereadmitted to the

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NATO: France and Turkey fracture Nato on Libya - "as Erdogan plays a dangerous game he could lose"- by Andrew Rettman

"Who cares about the EU or NATO ? Trump  agrees with me"

Nato is to investigate French allegations that Turkish warships targeted a French one in a confrontation over the Libya conflict, which has divided allies.

"The incident in the Mediterranean [Sea] was addressed in the meeting by several allies", Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said after Nato defence ministers held video-talks on Thursday (18 June).

"We have made sure that Nato military authorities are investigating the incident to bring full clarity to what happened," he said.

Turkish warships locked their weapons systems on to a French frigate called the Courbet, which was part of a Nato monitoring mission called Sea Guardian, on 10 June, according to France.

And they did it in order to slip through yet another illegal shipment of arms to Turkey's ally in the Libya civil war, the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), France said.

Note EU-Digest:  Curious - Whenever, or each time we put the President of Turkey's name ,Erdogan into the "Labels" column of our blog (EU-Digest), we were posting, the blog reported an error, and we had to go back and re-post the entire content of the blog, and rewrite the "labels"  removing Erdogan's name for it to work. Does this mean censorship by either some internal or external "source", or is it a real technical error? This is not the first time it happened when other sensitive issues were published.

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France and Turkey fracture Nato on Libya

USA - Wholesale - Costco: The Enduring Enigma of Costco's $1.50 Hot Dog and Soda Combo

When Costco president W. Craig Jelinek once complained to Costco co-founder and former CEO Jim Sinegal that their monolithic warehouse business was losing money on their famously cheap $1.50 hot dog and soda package, Sinegal listened, nodded, and then did his best to make his take on the situation perfectly clear. 

"If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you," Sinegal said. "Figure it out."

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The Netherlands - Housing: The Netherlands struggling to meet housing demand

In the Netherlands, the number of homeless people has doubled in recent years and 300,000 new houses are urgently needed. But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the yearly target will not be met.

To create both houses and jobs, local officials and developers havemade an urgent plea to the government to invest billions of Euros.

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The Netherlands struggling to meet housing demand | Netherlands 2017 News | Al Jazeera