Vollering wins Giro, Volkswagen chooses Spain (Monday, June 8)

Demi Vollering won the Giro d'Italia for the first time on Sunday. In the final stage, she took the pink jersey from Anna van der Breggen. Van der Breggen said that she is proud but also disappointed by the loss.

Volkswagen is going to build affordable electric cars in Spain, not in Germany. The executives say that Spanish factories can better compete with Chinese brands. China also wants to prevent electric cars from becoming larger and heavier.

Since February, the Gazan journalist Hisham Zaqout has been in the Netherlands with a fellowship from NIAS. He is researching how Palestinian journalists in Gaza live and work. He also assists colleagues remotely with technology; according to the United Nations, 300 journalists have been killed.

There was a commemoration in Camp Vught for the child transports of June 1943. Almost 1,300 Jewish children then went via Westerbork to Sobibor. Students read out names, and Dolf Schaap said that children must remain engaged.

Christian Eriksen collapsed on Sunday in Odense, during Denmark against Ukraine. The Danish Football Association says that he is conscious and feeling well. Foreign media report that the match was stopped; Eriksen has been playing with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) since 2021.