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The Netherlands' international relations are anchored by its EU and NATO memberships, both of which are not under any serious threat. Its Atlanticist outlook means that it is generally a [...]

The Netherlands' presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2016 has so far proved positive for relations with fellow member states. The government has [...]

The restoration of full diplomatic relations with the Netherlands is unlikely to advance while Mr Bouterse remains president. Relations have been frosty since 1999, when a Dutch court found Mr [...]

Guus Hiddink has given a boost to the 350-year-old Dutch-Korean relationship. The success of the Korean national team under Hiddink's guidance at the 2002 FIFA World cup has had an upsurge in the interest among Korean public in anything Dutch thus bringing the two nations even closer together.

The Netherlands retains policymaking capacity over Aruba's diplomatic relations and defence, but commercial and economic matters are handled by the local government. After years of diplomatic setbacks, the Eman administration [...]

Relations with the Netherlands and the two recently created states of Curacao and St Maarten were the subject of a four-day inter-parliamentary consultation in the Netherlands in mid-June. The chair [...]

The Netherlands retains policymaking capacity over Aruba's diplomatic relations as well as defence, but commercial and economic matters are handled by the local government. After years of diplomatic setbacks, the [...]

Klaas de Jonge is always remembered as the Dutch national who fought the South African apartheid regime as a white member of the then liberation party ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto [...]

Heightened tensions in the relationship between Aruba and the Netherlands have been evident in recent months. The decision by the Kingdom Council of Ministers to establish the seat of the [...]

China and the Netherlands are to launch a pair of small formation-flying satellites in 2011 to monitor climate change. The Technical University of Delft and University of Tsinghua will launch [...]

It was no real surprise: the Council of environment ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on 30 October, failed to rally a qualified majority either in favour of or against the European [...]

AFGHAN DECISION The Dutch government will decide later this year whether to extend its support for NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan beyond August 2008. The Royal Netherlands Air [...]

The Netherlands has signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding with Rome to investigate the possibility of assembling Dutch Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) in Italy while maintaining their [...]

The euro is not in danger of breaking up--yet THE shock of the French and Dutch noes to the European Union's constitutional treaty will reverberate long after next week's EU [...]

Voters in France and the Netherlands have killed the EU constitution THE Thalys train that runs from Paris to Amsterdam via Brussels is a symbol of the high-tech, borderless Europe [...]

Rapid response. Javier Solana presented the report requested by Ministers on the EU's early response capacity in crisis situations. The High Representative proposed that the EU should be able to [...]

The Netherlands has sent six Boeing NAH-64DApache attack helicopters to the Afghan capital Kabul for a six-month deployment in support of the International Security Assistance Force. The Dutch government last [...]

In the early 1990s the tourism boom and a housing shortage boosted construction activity. Many of these projects were wrecked in the storms of 1995, requiring a new round of [...]

Miguel Pourier is the prime minister and leader of the Partido Antia Restruktura (PAR). He leads a broad-based coalition government that includes 18 of the 22 members of the Staten, [...]

Tourism Tourism remains a central pillar of the economy. The industry performed well in the early 1990s, but has struggled since hurricanes devastated St Maarten, the main tourist resort, in [...]

The capital-account balance fluctuated between deficit and surplus in the 1990s (see Reference tables 12-13). Movements were influenced largely by the external borrowing activities of utility companies and other state- [...]

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is responsible for international relations and defence. However, in recent years the Netherlands Antilles has strengthened its relations with other Caribbean governments. It has been [...]

The population comprises a mixture of around 50 nationalities, with people of Dutch, African, Spanish and Chinese origins strongly prevalent. In terms of ethnicity, those of mixed race form about [...]

The queen of the Netherlands is head of state and appoints a governor to represent the crown. Although a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles has [...]

As the dust settles after the explosive referenda at the heart of the European Union, interested parties from all sides are peering nervously into the crater, trying to figure out [...]

A majority of European governments have closed ranks on a small but powerful group of Northern states that want direct aids left out of farm policy talks with countries vying [...]

On March 29, 1984, peace activist John Philip Wood slipped into the Belgian Air Force base at Florennes, forced open the steel-reinforced door of an ammunition bunker and made off [...]