Preamble:
Recently, the Dutch government announced a startling initiative in which they decided to spend 2.5 billion euros to improve the infrastructure and living conditions at ASML's headquarters. Such a move is undoubtedly refreshing, because normally the improvement of infrastructure and living conditions is intended to attract some large companies to the region, but this time, the Dutch government is trying to retain a company that already has its headquarters in the region.
1. The Netherlands has spent 2.5 billion yuan to improve infrastructure and living conditions
Since 2016, ASML has established its headquarters in the Netherlands, and its local development is also very smooth, so their headquarters has been located in the Netherlands. The Dutch government's €2.5 billion plan is also aimed at ensuring that ASML does not move its operations out of the country, so they have decided to retain ASML by improving infrastructure and living conditions.
Second, the future direction of ASML
It is understood that ASML welcomes the Dutch government's initiative, and they believe that the Dutch approach can make them develop better in the local area, and at the same time, it can also improve the sense of belonging of employees. However, despite this, there is no final conclusion on ASML's development direction, and they say that the future direction will need to be considered for some more time, and there is no final decision on whether it will consider moving its headquarters from the Netherlands.
In fact, the development direction of ASML is affected by such and such factors, but the biggest influence should come from the American capital behind ASML, because there is a lot of American capital in ASML's holdings, and the final "where" is also determined by these American capital.
3. U.S. capital may be a decisive factor
Therefore, it can be said that whether it is ASML or the Dutch government, their decisions and ideas may be in vain, and in the end, a large part of the decision to decide whether ASML will stay in the Netherlands or leave, is actually not in their hands, but in the hands of these American capital.
In other words, the future development direction of ASML may be affected by American capital, and if it wants to retain ASML, I am afraid that the Dutch government needs to do more work.
In addition, the development direction of ASML may also be affected by other factors, such as the local tax policy in the Netherlands, as well as the local talent pool, it can be said that in order to retain ASML, the Dutch government needs to do more all-round work to be successful.
Epilogue:
It can be seen that although this matter is a trivial matter, but it involves all aspects of the problem, whether it is the national government, or the enterprise company, in fact, in the face of the development of enterprises, their right to speak is not very large, the final decision, often in the hands of capital, and how to retain enterprises, has also become a difficult problem faced by various countries.