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Chronicles
Congress
please see the Category Congress of the Netherlands
Government
please see the page The Governmental history
President
please see the page The Presidential history
Military
please see the page The Military history page
Historical overview
early days (pre-union)
since Beta version
November 2007-October 2008
In the late months of 2007 Netherlands in the New World had a slow start, but things changed fast after the 1st party emerged (Dutch Erepublik Political Party), the first company was created, the Dutch National Bank and a training company. Some of them where upgraded to higher levels. Many newborn citizens where wheeled in from online-forums such as Tweakers and Fok. Creating a rivalry between them in the form of two parties (Gathering of Tweakers and FOK! Party). Due to the growth it made the Netherlands the number 1 country in Republik for a short while. The first MPP was with Italy in April 2008, and Netherlands joined PEACE in August 2008.
since V1
October 2008-March 2009
Iron & Wine came frequently to power, many times rivaling left-winged parties SPV, LN, LSD, whose party president Cocoamok took over power for the longest consecutive presidential term to date (4 terms). Besides these two parties there were more parties coming and going. In December 2008 GDGR and C.D.P fused together in GDGR. The new name for this party is : Liberaal ChristenDemocraten. In March 2009 far-right party Neerlands Hoop joined the government.
Union-period (United Netherlands)
April 2009 - Feb 2010
also see main article: History of the United Netherlandsformation
The Netherlands unofficially became the United Netherlands when it merged with Belgium in April 2009. During the congress election on 25th March, 2009, Spanish citizens who called themselves "Las tropas imperiales" won a majority of the congressional seats in Belgium, effecting in a political takeover. In response to this, Belgian co-president CreveRoeland decided to cede all Belgian territories to the Netherlands on the 5th April 2009, forming a union and preventing a Spanish president from being elected.
During the union
The unification, that had gained major support, was a success. Without many troubles, both countries were unified under one flag. However, there were also Belgians that fled the country and moved to the UK. The separatist parties had no or little influence on state affairs, because they are not in the top 5 list of political parties and are really small. From French-speaking side, which wasn't much (even in the Belgian period) there was support for the unification. After a little baby boom, started by France, many French speaking citizens from Belgium joined. The Belgian Party that supports the union became the biggest party, and their CP candidate ThomasRed is the longest sitting non-consecutive president in the history of the (United) Netherlands. (5 full terms, 2 half terms).
End of the Union
On October 22, 2009 a resistance war was started in the region of Flanders. The operation was carried out by the Romanian group, The Group, and the American Seal Team 6. Despite some minor tanking on both sides, the RW could not be stopped and the region was taken. Several days after, a resistance was started in the region of Brussels; PEACE was unable to defend the region. On December 15, 2009 (Day 737) the UK attacked and conquered Flanders. A day after, Brussels was also conquered by the UK, effectively taking away all Belgian regions from the control of The Group. The Netherlands waited for their ally to hand over the Belgian regions, but for some reason that didn't happen. Belgian's were claiming their independence, although by rule, they never officially left the union as stated in the union treaty. In early 2010 unofficially the merger was no more after Belgium remained independent, and the Netherlands assumed they left the Union. After Belgium left the Union, the Netherlands kept the name United Netherlands and it's abbreviation UNL for over half a year. This to keep showing that the Netherlands was an open country for anyone in the world, and that the nation as always was united. The only remains on the United Netherlands is that they keep going to the same chatchannel (#eUNL on rizon.net)
Modern times (post-union)
March 2010 - now
Mid 2010 some nationalistic tendencies emerged and the name was altered into the Netherlands, even Dutch was shortly reinstated as official language again in the hopes it would benefit a potential babyboom, this against the dismal of the international minded citizens. The plan backfired, and quite some internationally oriented citizens (of whom the last Belgians) left the country left. Soon both English was restored as an official language, together with Dutch they were declared both official languages. After a year of debating and experimenting, In October 2010 the Netherlands switched from a Party-Coalition-based government to a semi-CP-government. Late 2010 most parties were suffering from PTO's from a Croatian feminist organization. Poland and Serbia invaded the Netherlands in beginning of 2011 and wiped it of the map multiple times, resulted that all parties were moved, thus creating the opportunity for the Dutch to only create 1 party for a period of time (Verenigd Nederland), in order to counter any future PTO's. The Dutch were able to regain 2 of their regions in January 2011 through RW's, however Poland regain the territories quite fast. NL got out of the grip of Poland late May 2011, but when Poland signed peace with France, Poland wiped the Netherlands off the map for the 5th time and threatened to not let the Dutch back on the map again. President Daniel Parker signed a temporary truce with Poland in order to get his country back on the map.
Timeline
2008
March
- The GoT government established an allowance/sponsorship program to help companies and citizens gain more purchasing power. This to compensate overproduction in multiple sectors.
- New party Iron and Wine was formed
April
- The I&W government started a Q1 weapon company to train unemployed citizens for a minimal loan, though enough to at least pay for their food.
- On the 18th of April the MPP with Italy became active, quickly followed by the MPP's with Italy, Spain and Portugal. The Netherlands now were officially part of the Mediterranean Alliance.
May
- A bug messed up the Dutch elections of the month May. I&W lost all its votes but one due to unknown reasons.
- The Netherlands supported the war against Switzerland by sending paratroopers to France.
June
- Elections were won by I&W, making them the country's leader once again.
- The national hospital company was upgraded to Q3 and a training center was set up to get more new hospital employees.
July
- 10: New party Socialistische Partij van het Volk (SPV) was founded on the remains of DEPP
August
- Again the Elections were won by I&W, while player Onrche tried to take over the government with the use of multi-accounts during the party leader elections.
- A new constitution was released at the end of the month.
- As the Mediterranean Alliance was falling apart, the Dutch government decided to side with PEACE Global Community in order to protect the sovereignty of the Netherlands.
September
- 12: New party Neerlands Hoop is founded on the remains of the Fascistische Partij[1]
October
- New party Dutch Three Star was founded on the remains of an inactive party
- After the county was ruled for 4 months by the I&W party the Socialistische Partij van het Volk beat I&W in the elections. The new president became Cocoamok, the longest non-consecutive ruling president.
November
December
- The state lottery was nationalised
- Gathering Destiny GR and C.D.P fused together in GDGR, making it a bigger and more active party.
- The New name for this party is : LCD, Liberaal ChristenDemocraten.
2009
January
- A law was introduced to allow elite soldier to keep their congress seat on the forum if they left their congress seat in-game for defense purposes.
February
- Netherlands joins ESA, although that alliance never really got off the ground.
- New Constitution was introduced by Jazar
- The 'food crisis' occurred in the Netherlands. In one day all food stocks were bought up from the market, therefore giving all the citizens of the Netherlands a hard time to get some bread. This event was the trigger for the later Tax Proposal.
March
- For the first time the political party Neerlands Hoop is in the Government of the Netherlands.
- I&W regains majority in the congress with 18 Seats.
- Q5 Hospital is placed in the Northern Region.
- Constitution was amended
- Party Leader RepsaJ of Neerlands Hoop leaves to Belgium and Hardcore-Gabber becomes the Party President.
April
- Netherlands and Belgium form a union and is named United Netherlands
- A quorum was set on the forum-congress, a minimal amount of votes should be cast from now on
May
- Links Nederland renamed itself to Libertarian Social Democrats (LSD)
- New party Belgian Party (BP) was formed
- New party Gelijkheid Vrijheid Democratie (GVD) was formed on the remains of Neerlands Hoop
- Congress rules were introduced by CreveRoeland
June
- 16: New party Green Liberal Democrats was founded by Peter Green on the remains of Liberaal ChristenDemocraten
- CreveRoeland's proposal to seperate legislative and executive powers was been rejected by congress
July
Augustus
- United Netherlands joins PEACE war-games
September
- 17: New party the Libertarian Party was founded by Mighty Sigh
October
- Flanders was conquered via a Resistance War by a Romanian force called 'the Group' and American Seal team 6
- The function of Dutch Vice-Chairman of Congress (or vice-chairman) was introduced in the Congress rules by Flando
November
- 23: United Netherlands leaves PEACE [2]
- The Weapons state company is upgraded to Q4
December
- United Kingdom forces conquered Belgium, this to counter EDEN presence in the form of Romanians and Americans. It was the start of Belgium's solo-carreer.
- 06: United Netherlands joins PHOENIX
- ThomasRed's proposal for a 2 month test period of a CP lead government was rejected in Congress [3]
- United Netherlands officially declares it's ESA treaty void (that alliance was never fully formed)
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Netherlands/History
2010
January
- New party Dutch National Democrats was founded on the remains of DutchLink
February
- Belgium unofficially leaves the United Netherlands
March
- Belgium leaving the union led to a huge conflict about money, the Belgians claimed that they should have gotten 600 gold from the Dutch government. The Dutch believed that they miscalculated it, and offered only 50 gold. [4]
April
- The secret security agency UNLIN was renamed into the more public Security Council for Immigrants
May
- First month of the 3 test-months of the Presidential Government system
- 20: New party Independent Party was founded by Daniel Parker on the remains of the Libertarian Party [5]
June
- Second month of the 3 test-months of the Presidential Government system
- an embargo against Italy was accepted, since Italy helped out enemy countries
July
- Last month of the 3 test-months of the Presidential Government system
- The congress didn't extend the Presidential Government system, and went back to a party-coalition based system
August
- a debated was proposed to attack Belgium, congress voted no to the proposal
September
- United Netherlands were officially reverted back into Netherlands (UNL became NL)
October
- Medals of the Netherlands were introduced [6]
- Constitution was amended
- Prime Minister function was disbanded
- Country President became state leader, although bound by congress
- a senate was introduced
- Country President became state leader, although bound by congress
- Prime Minister function was disbanded
November
- 17: Democratisch Nederland was founded
- The Netherlands got new resources, instead of 4x grain, it now has 1x oil, 2x cattle, 1x fish
- Independent Party is dissolved after the party has been (unintentionally) left over to be PTO'd [7]
- UK attacks NL
- PHOENIX asked the Netherlands to let them be wiped by the UK in order to close all current wars [8]. This so the Netherlands would function as a buffer between the UK and Poland, which just conquered Lower Saxony and Bremen[9]. Because the country was wiped, all political parties were gone. Due to a plead to the admin the biggest ones were returned.
December
- Most parties (LSD, GLD, IP, DemNL) were suffering from PTO attacks by a Croatian feminist organisation.
- Verenigd Nederland was formed by the Iron & Wine party, this in order to counter PTO's
2011
January
- 9: Poland declared the Netherlands "Natural enemy"
- 10-14: Poland attacks the Eastern Netherlands although we stood a good 15 battles against the giant, we eventually were overrun. It is speculated that because of the effort of former ally Hungary (recently stepped out of PHOENIX) we didn't prevail. After East fell, the rest of our country was quickly wiped of the map. [10]
- 17: Netherlands was able to reconquer Eastern Netherlands through RW's (with Poland's agreement)
- 18: Netherlands was able to reconquer Northern Netherlands through RW's (with Poland's agreement)
- Positive aspect of the wipe is that it resulted in that all parties were moved to Poland, thus creating the opportunity for the Dutch to only create 1 party for a period of time, in order to counter any future PTO's, which many parties had been suffering from the previous months. The new party was called Verenigd Nederland (Netherlands United, not to be confused with United Netherlands)
- 25: 28th Congress of the Netherlands was elected
February
- 4: The country president was elected on the forums (since there was only 1 party in the whole country). Garmr won by popular demand from Briepe[11]. However the party (and country) president Antiko forgot to place the vote in-game on time[12], so he became Country President unofficially again. Garmr will still act as president, and pass his instructions through Antiko.
- talks were started with the Polish on what terms the regions were maintained under Poland's control. There were talks about the Polish hiring the Dutch regions.
- Serbia was planning to rent the region of East of England from the British.
- At first their plan was to pass through Belgium, but as soon as that got out, France (under influence from USA and PANAM) seized the Belgium Territories
- While Poland still occupied parts of the Netherlands, Serbia passed through the Netherlands to reach region of East of England, after declaring us natural enemy, they wiped the Netherlands of the map.
- Serbians were kind enough to pay for RW's and 40 gold in order to pay for the loss of the only political party.
- 25: 29th Congress of the Netherlands was elected
March 2011
- the New Polish CP decided they didn't want to pay rent for the Dutch regions, and conquered Eastern Netherlands for use of it's cattle.
- Poland declared Netherlands Natural Enemy and wiped the Netherlands of the map for the second time.
- Poland did pay 40 gold to recover the loss of the only political party
- Poland declared Netherlands Natural Enemy and wiped the Netherlands of the map for the second time.
- 12: Netherlands regains Southern Netherlands through a resistance war (as agreed with Poland) [13]
- 25: a futile resistance war in Eastern Netherlands was attempt by Jamesw to get the region out of the hands of Poland[14]
- 25: 30th Congress of the Netherlands was elected
April 2011
- 5: The presidential elections of the Verenigd Nederland internally end up in a near tie, people debate who won; ChristiaanB94 or Dennis Baks. In the end both became officially CP, ChristiaanB94 in-game.
- 6: The three month 1 party period established by president Antiko in January comes to an end
- 7: Iron & Wine party was re-established
- 8: Democratisch Nederland was re-established on the remains of Verenigd Nederland
- 18: New Party Centre-Left Netherlands was established [15]
- 25: 31th Congress of the Netherlands was elected, first time with multiple parties after the 3 month 1 party ATO policy
- 26: A senate reform is passed through congress in the form of a constitution change[16]
- 29: Poland being very occupied with multiple RW's and battles on all fronts, Netherlands seizes it's chance and regains Western Netherlands[17] [18]
May 2011
- 9-14: Poland declares Netherlands natural enemy and re-conquers the Netherlands, after France signed peace with Poland [19]
- 19: President Daniel Parker signs a temporary truce for 3 months with Poland in order to get his country back on the map. [20]
- 20: Netherlands regains Northern Netherlands through a resistance war as agreed with Poland. [21] [22]
- 25: President Daniel Parker announces new forum medals and the moval of state companies to the armed forces[23]
- 25: 32th Congress of the Netherlands was elected, first time Centre-Left Netherlands acquired a seat.
- 28: New party Geuzen Partij Nederland established [24]
June 2011
- 13: President ArtemIvanov is able to present his new government, after the first one didn't make the necessary quorum by congress [25]
- 14: Netherlands regains Eastern Netherlands a week earlier then initially planned, through a resistance war as agreed with Poland [26] [27]
- 25: 33th Congress of the Netherlands was elected, first time Geuzen Partij Nederland got elected
July 2011
- 15: Party President elections lead to a dispute between the PP and VPP of the GPN party. [28][29]
- 25: 34th Congress of the Netherlands was elected