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就在荷兰总理Wim Kok计划引退的前几个月,他受到了权威机构的高度赞扬。伦敦经济学家情报机构(EIU)宣称,这个北欧小国已倍受外国投资者的青睐。这也是荷兰首次被认定为世界上仅次于美国的最受欢迎的商业选址地。伦敦的EIU是在美国“9·11恐怖袭击事件”前进行该分析的。这个“风车和水坝的国家”由于其低税率和自由的对外贸易政策,以及稳定的政治环境而吸引着国外的投资者。但是,正是由于这些政策,也引起了其邻邦的怀疑,欧盟已经宣布开始着手调查荷兰对国外投资者和公司的税收优惠政策。
Just months before the Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok planned to retire, he was highly praised by authorities. The London Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) claims that this small northern European country has gained much traction from foreign investors. This is also the first time that the Netherlands has been recognized as the world’s most popular commercial site after the United States. The EIU in London conducted the analysis before the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. This “country of windmills and dams” attracts foreign investors due to its low tax rates and free foreign trade policies, as well as a stable political environment. However, it is precisely because these policies have also aroused the suspicion of their neighbors that the EU has announced that it has begun to investigate the tax preferential policies of the Netherlands to foreign investors and corporations.