The Netherlands has already benefited significantly from the upcoming Brexit. Forty-two British companies moved to the Netherlands in 2018, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday in The Hague. This involved around 291 million euros of investment and around 2,000 new jobs had been created.
Among the companies and organizations that have turned their back on the UK is the European Medicines Agency EMA, which is now based in Amsterdam. The Japanese electronics group Panasonic also moved its European headquarters to the Netherlands. By 2017, 18 companies had moved from the UK to the Netherlands.
According to the annual report of the Dutch Agency for Foreign Investment, another 250 companies are planning to move to the Netherlands because of the Brexit. According to the agency, these included, above all, companies from the financial sector as well as media and logistics companies. The TV station Discovery and the media company Bloomberg have announced their move.
Last year, a total of 372 foreign companies moved to the Netherlands. They made investments totaling around 2.85 billion euros and created about 10,000 new jobs.
