The Atlas of demography is an interactive knowledge management tool that enables policymakers and citizens to observe, monitor and anticipate demographic challenges. In the Data section, you can explore population, fertility, mortality and migration at the EU, national, regional and local levels.

The Atlas of migration is an interactive resource which gathers data and indicators on migration and migration related topics.

Cohesion Open Data provides transparent data to EU taxpayers on the use of EU budget funds.

In order to address the diversity of country and territory codes and names used in the EU institutions, the European Commission has developed a corporate code list of countries and territories that covers the different use cases its services have.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment. Publications Office of the European Union, 2022.

The revenue from environmentally relevant taxes in the Netherlands was above the EU average. Environmental taxes stood at 3.39% of GDP in 2019 (EU-27 average: 2.37 %). The largest portion of the environmental taxes were the energy taxes at 1.95% of GDP, also above the EU average of 1.84 %. Transport taxes represented 1.01 % of GDP (EU average being 0.45%), taxes on pollution and resources represented 0.43% (the highest in the EU and 5 times higher than the EU average at 0.08%). ln the same year, the environmental tax came to 8.51 % of total revenues from taxes and social security contributions

European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment. Publications Office of the European Union, 2022.

In 2016, the Commission undertook to report regularly on the state of the implementation of EU environmental legislation. It launched the Environmental Implementation Review (EIR), a tool that helps Member States address systemic obstacles to environmental integration by identifying the causes behind poor implementation and by sharing good practices through peer-to-peer support. This factsheet summarises the progress achieved and the remaining challenges identified for the Netherlands in the third EIR package published in September 2022.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Budget; Publications Office, 2020.

The EU budget provides financial support to students, scientists, farmers, NGOs, SMEs, towns, regions and many other beneficiaries in the Netherlands. The second largest share of EU funding is for agriculture, rural development and nature conservation (35% in 2018). For example, EU subsidies have supported innovation and sustainability in the Greenport region of Boskoop, famous for its ornamental horticulture.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy, F. Hirschbichler, R. Löw, R, D. Presch. Publications Office, 2021

The European Barriers in Retail Energy Markets project was established to research the extent to which the theory is the case in practice; the extent to which energy suppliers across Europe face a variety of barriers to enter and compete in the market; to identify which barriers exist and to provide some suggested solutions to those barriers. The project thereby aims to support the European Commission and Member States in developing policy and implementing actions to reduce barriers.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment. Publications Office, 2021.

The main objective of this project is to identify and assess Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based instruments and criteria that nine selected EEA countries, their regions and contracting authorities have implemented in public procurement procedures. LCA-based criteria in public procurement procedures focus on the environmental impact of the tendered products, services or works. It can cover the whole life cycle or only certain of its elements, such as the environmental impact of transport. As with all environmental criteria, there are different options for the implementation of LCA-based criteria in the public procurement process.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, E. Afman. Publications Office, 2020.

This economic brief brings together publicly available income and wealth data and finds that the distribution of income among Dutch households is relatively stable and flat by international standards. Inequalities in net wealth holdings are relatively large. This is to a large extent a debt-driven phenomenon and related to the large number of Dutch households with low and sometimes negative net housing equity.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication. Publications Office of the European Union. 2022.

The Netherlands’ recovery and resilience plan The European Commission has given a positive assessment to the Netherlands' recovery and resilience plan, which will be financed by €4.7 billion in grants. The financing provided by the Recovery and Resilience Facility – at the heart of NextGenerationEU – will support the implementation by 2026 of crucial investment and reform measures put forward by the Netherlands. These measures will help the Netherlands to emerge stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022.

The country reports present an overview of the characteristics and recent developments in the public administrations in the Member States (EU-27) from a qualitative and quantitative perspective. They are based on analytical work carried out under the “European Public Administration Country Knowledge” (EUPACK) project.

Ooijen, C., et al. Publications Office of the European Union, 2023.

This report is the first in a series of four that aims to establish a standard methodology for open data impact assessments that can be used across Europe. This exercise is key because a consistent definition of the impact of open data does not exist. The lack of a robust, conceptual foundation has made it more difficult for data portals to demonstrate their value through empirical evidence. It also challenges the EU’s ability to understand and compare performance across Member States.

Joint Research Centre, European Commission, A. Toreti, D. Bavera, J. Acosta Navarro. Publications Office of the European Union. 2022.

The Dutch government declared a 'de facto water shortage (level 2)' on August 3rd, scaling up from a 'threat of water shortage (level 1)'. With this declaration, the management of the water distribution is delegated to a national commission (Management Team Water Scarcity) with the aim of following the development of the water scarcity more closely and being able to react faster if the need for more measures arises.