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Maaike Veen

Dutch journalist Maaike Veen writes about British politics and economics and the quirky habits of the British people, which after five years in London continue to fascinate her. She works as a freelance UK correspondent for Dutch national newspaper Trouw (www.trouw.nl), Flemish paper De Standaard (www.standaard.be) and Elsevier (www.elsevier.nl), the leading current affairs weekly in the Netherlands. She also writes for business weekly FEMBusiness and on the Dutch pension market for NPN, a trade publication of the Financial Times Group.

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