Roundup: Dutch businesses face rising challenges as costs, debts grow

THE HAGUE, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The resilience of Dutch businesses is being put to the test as they grapple with a range of financial difficulties from lingering COVID-related debts to surging costs.

Some 91,000 entrepreneurs in the Netherlands still carry outstanding COVID-related debts to the Dutch tax authorities, according to a recent letter to the country's parliament by State Secretary for Finance Marnix van Rij.