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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam and agencies

Dutch ministers trying to stop tech firm ASML moving abroad over foreign labour fears

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ASML is among Europe’s most valuable tech firms. About 40% of its 23,000 employees in the Netherlands are not Dutch. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

The Dutch government is scrambling to ensure that the country’s largest company, the semiconductor equipment maker ASML, does not move operations or expand abroad after the tech firm voiced concerns over the country’s hardening stance on migrants.

On Wednesday, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that the Dutch government had launched a cross-ministry effort, dubbed “Operation Beethoven”, to encourage ASML to continue to invest in the country.

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