The various regional departments of VNO-NCW have sounded the alarm with chairman Ingrid Thijssen and she is now passing on their cry for help to the government. “Our joint ambitions in areas such as sustainability, accessibility and housing are under threat,” she writes in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Power grid overcrowded
In a list With about a hundred examples, the entrepreneurs and companies list which projects throughout the country cannot (yet) go ahead. This is partly due to the nitrogen problem, the overcrowded electricity network, slow licensing and staff shortages.
This concerns, for example, the approach to the Hoevelaken junction and other highways, a lack of truck parking spaces and the electrification of the railway line between Nijmegen and Roermond (Maaslijn), which is much more expensive due to higher raw material prices. But also a very specific example of a residential complex in Central Brabant whose lift cannot be connected to the electricity network because it is overcrowded.
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VNO-NCW chairman Thijssen does not want to outsource the responsibility for solving these problems only to the government, she writes. “It is in the nature of entrepreneurs to come up with solutions and ideas. Let’s work together as a business and government in a new way.”
With these new forms of collaboration ‘we can go surprisingly far and solve many problems faster’, thinks Thijssen. She would therefore like to see the cabinet sit down with a selection of entrepreneurs to discuss these solutions.
The entrepreneurs’ organization says it has many examples of solutions for the various problems. They deliberately do not mention them in the letter, says spokesman Edwin van Scherrenburg. “We would like to discuss this with the Prime Minister and to ensure that we can actually set up the cooperation.”
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