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'''The Netherlands''' is a small-sized country in the North-West of Europe. The Netherlands originally consists out of 4 regions, named after the 4 directions of the wind (Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Netherlands). It borders with 6 regions of 4 foreign countries. It has a small but active population. The Netherlands has been on and off the map since 2011 due to the location of an [[Oil]] resource in the [[Western Netherlands]], which has been a keen interest by {{CountryLink|Poland}}. Nowadays The Netherlands and Poland have signed a treaty to lend out the Western and the Southern Netherlands to Poland. In return, the Netherlands is allowed to keep the Northern and the Eastern territories with protection of Poland.
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'''The Netherlands''' is a medium-sized country in the North-West of Europe. The Netherlands originally consists out of 4 regions, named after the 4 directions of the wind (Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Netherlands). It borders with 6 regions of 4 foreign countries. It has a small but active population. The Netherlands had been on and off the map since 2011 due to the location of a historic [[Oil]] resource in the [[Western Netherlands]], which used to be a keen interest by {{CountryLink|Poland}}. Since the resource shuffle, the Netherlands is now standing pretty steady on the world map as the oil resource was removed from the region of Western Netherlands. At this moment, The Netherlands are renting their food and weapons resources to {{CountryLink|Iran}}.
  
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==[[File:Icon achievement society builder on.gif]] Society==
 
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===Community===
 
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The community is diverse, consisting of many RL-Dutch, followed by several people from abroad. The Dutch community has generally been seen as an international orientated country, given the fact the English language is widely used in media and day-to-day communication.
  
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The Netherlands was a founding member of the '''[[Mediterranean Alliance ]]''', {{CountryLink|PEACE}} and the {{CountryLink|Phoenix}} alliance systems and often delivered prominent citizens into high-ranking positions within those organisations. The Netherlands formed for almost a year a union together with {{CountryLink|Belgium}} called the {{CountryLink|United Netherlands}}. The Netherlands joined [[File:Flag-GEA.png|20px]]'''[[Garden of EDEN Alliance|GEA]]''' late 2011 and in 2012 the Netherlands was accepted as a full member of [[File:Icon-EDEN.png|20px]]'''[[EDEN]]''' which it left begin of 2013. December of 2015 it joined [[File:Flag-Orion.jpg|20px]]  '''[[Orion]]'''.
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The community is diverse, consisting of many RL-Dutch, and many people from abroad. The Dutch community has generally been seen as an international orientated country.
 
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The Dutch community gathers on their external forum and an external chat-channel.
 
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===Language===
 
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Both Dutch and English are the official languages of the Netherlands. Most citizens speak English quite well and generally English is used most most on the forum.
 
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===Government publications===
 
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Articles in newspapers and international messages are nearly always written in English and sometimes accompanied by a Dutch translation. In official ministry publications both English and Dutch are used to accompany all the citizens language abilities.
 
  
 
===[[File:Paper-Compass.png|45px|]]  Geography===
 
===[[File:Paper-Compass.png|45px|]]  Geography===
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{{RegionsTable|Northern Netherlands|Southern Netherlands|Western Netherlands|last=Eastern Netherlands|showprod=1}}
 
  
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==[[File:Icon_achievement_resistance_on.gif‎]] History==
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The Netherlands was a founding member of the '''[[Mediterranean Alliance ]]''', {{CountryLink|PEACE}} and the {{CountryLink|Phoenix}} alliance systems and often delivered prominent citizens into high-ranking positions within those organisations. The Netherlands formed for almost a year a union together with {{CountryLink|Belgium}} called the {{CountryLink|United Netherlands}}. The Netherlands joined [[File:GEA.png|20px]]'''[[GEA]]''' late 2011 and in 2012 the Netherlands was accepted as a full member of [[File:Icon-EDEN.png|20px]]'''[[EDEN]]''' which it left begin of 2013.
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==[[File:Icon achievement hardworker on.gif]] Economy==
 
==[[File:Icon achievement hardworker on.gif]] Economy==
  
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[[File:Oil-Rig.jpg‎|thumb|right|The Dutch found new oil resources in the North Sea recently]]
 
 
=== Currency ===
 
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The currency of the Netherlands is the [[Dutch guilder|Dutch Guilder]] or Nederlandse Gulden ('''NLG''')
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The currency of the Netherlands is the [[Dutch Guilder]] or Nederlandse Gulden ('''NLG''')
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===Trading Embargo===
 
 
{{EmbargoList|Netherlands}}
 
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==[[File:Icon achievement congressman on.gif]] Politics==
 
==[[File:Icon achievement congressman on.gif]] Politics==
  
 
=== [[File:Wetboek.png|55px]] Constitution and Law===
 
=== [[File:Wetboek.png|55px]] Constitution and Law===
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The law is determined by a majority vote in [[Netherlands#Congress|Congress]]. The leading law is the [[Constitution of Netherlands|constitution]] (in it's amended form). An overview of all laws can be found in the [[Lawbook of Netherlands]].
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The law is determined by a majority vote in [[Netherlands#Congress|Congress]]. The leading law is the [[Constitution of the Netherlands|constitution]] (in it's amended form). An overview of all laws can be found in the [[Lawbook of the Netherlands]], managed by the Chairman of Congress is {{eLink|newspaper|202872|UNL Binnenhof}} newspapers.
  
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=== [[File:2ekamerlogo-m.png|50px]] Congress ===
 
=== [[File:2ekamerlogo-m.png|50px]] Congress ===
 
[[File:Tweede_Kamer.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Dutch Congress, known as the ''Tweede Kamer'' (Second chamber)]]
 
[[File:Tweede_Kamer.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Dutch Congress, known as the ''Tweede Kamer'' (Second chamber)]]
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* ''Also see other articles in the Category: [[:Category:Congress of Netherlands|Congress of Netherlands]]''
 
  
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The legislative chamber of the country is also referred to as ''Congress'', ''Parliament'', or ''Second Chamber''. It debates on laws
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The legislative chamber of the country is also referred to as ''Congress'' or ''Parliament''. It debates on laws and other proposals.
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The Congress of the Netherlands is the highest legislative body. With a 66% percent majority, Congress can change anything.'' (In order to amend the [[constitution of Netherlands|constitution]], two votes needs to be held in two consecutive terms'').
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In the Netherlands we distinguish the in-game Congress, where simple adjustments to the game, like changing taxes, can be made, and [http://enetherlands.nl/viewforum.php?f=27 forum Congress], where more complex laws and policies are debated and voted on. Every new law needs to be debated and voted on in forum Congress before being processed in-game.
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The Congress of the Netherlands is the highest legislative body. With a 66% percent majority, Congress can change anything.'' (In order to amend the [[Constitution of the Netherlands|constitution]], two votes needs to be held in two consecutive terms'').
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In the Netherlands, the Congress debates are public to all citizens, made through the articles released by UNL Binnenhof newspapers (with the exception of privater or sensitive matters, which are solved via Congress mass messages. Voting is done in Congress mass messages, the results of the vote are published in articles released by UNL Binnenhof newspapers.
 
Every citizen of the Netherlands may participate in public Congress debates, however only Congress-members may vote on proposals.
 
Every citizen of the Netherlands may participate in public Congress debates, however only Congress-members may vote on proposals.
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The Congress is managed by the [[Chairman of Congress]] and his deputy the ''vice-chairman of Congress'', they manage the debates (closing votes, closing old topics, tame the incidental flamewar) they publish updates on the congress in ''eNL congress newspaper''.
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The Congress is managed by the [[Speaker|Chairman of Congress]] and his deputy the, they manage the debates (opening and closing debates and votes, tame the incidental flamewar)
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====  Congress ====
 
====  Congress ====
  
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=== [[File:Cpemblem.jpg‎|80px]] President  ===
 
=== [[File:Cpemblem.jpg‎|80px]] President  ===
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[[File:Aries Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Current president [[Aries Prime]]]]
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'''Role of the President in the Netherlands'''  
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'''Role of the President in Netherlands'''  
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:The Country President (CP) is the formal head of state, government and military, although the President’s powers are limited by the constitutional and congressional legal order of the Netherlands.  
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:The Country President (CP) is the formal head of state, government and military, although the President’s forum based and in-game powers are limited by the constitutional and congressional legal order of the Netherlands.  
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:The President resides in [[Het Catshuis]] where he publishes in the {{eLink|newspaper|239643|Presidential Newspaper}}.
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:The President resides in [[Het Catshuis]] where he publishes in the {{eLink|newspaper|239643|Presidential Newspaper}}. He also has the privilege/duty to hand out [[Medals of the Netherlands|Medals]].
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'''''Presidential History'''''
 
'''''Presidential History'''''
  
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* ''For an overview of all the Dutch presidents and the historical roles see [[List of presidents of the Netherlands|Presidential History of Netherlands]]''
  
 
=== [[File:Rijksoverheid-s.jpg]] Government ===
 
=== [[File:Rijksoverheid-s.jpg]] Government ===
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* The Country President is the formal head of state, government and military.
 
* The Country President is the formal head of state, government and military.
 
* The Government consists of the NL President, the NL vice-President and the NL Ministers  
 
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::The NL Government is responsible for the daily management of the Netherlands. The following ministries have a fixed position, meaning they can not be removed ::and their posts must be filled: Ministry of Finances and Ministry of Defense.  
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::* The Government is formed after the Country President [[Elections]] by the Country President.
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====  Previous Governments ====
 
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* ''For an overview of all the Dutch Governments see [[List of governments of the Netherlands|Governmental History of Netherlands]]''
  
 
==[[File:Icon achievement supersoldier on.gif]] Military ==
 
==[[File:Icon achievement supersoldier on.gif]] Military ==
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=== [[File:NL Krijgsmacht.png|65px]] Armed Forces of the Netherlands ===
 
=== [[File:NL Krijgsmacht.png|65px]] Armed Forces of the Netherlands ===
  
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The Armed Forces of the Netherlands consist of two [[Military unit]]s called '''eNL Navy''' and the '''Korps Mariniers''', who are officially supported by the Dutch state and thus financed by the Congress. They are directly operated from the [[Dutch Ministry of Defense]] and the President. Soldier in these units can get supplies in the form of weapons in priority battles on [http://www.enetherlands.nl/portal.php #nl-army on irc.rizon.net].
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The Armed Forces of the Netherlands consist of one [[Military unit]] called '''Dutch Armed Forces''', who is officially supported by the Dutch state. They are directly operated from the [[Dutch Ministry of Defense]] and the President.
  
 
===Wars and Conflict===
 
===Wars and Conflict===
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*Two or more of its original regions are under [[Poland|Polish]] occupation on and off since January 2011. The Netherlands was never able to remain longer on the map for a couple of days since then, except during the time a [[Poznan Treaty|treaty]] was signed between Netherlands and Poland. Sometimes {{CountryLink|Poland}} would let eNL have one or two regions, but since relations between the two countries have deteriorated that hasn't happened for over the better part of 2013.
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The Netherlands currently have a training war with Poland and Estonia.
  
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===Alliances===
 
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Currently the Netherlands not a member of any alliance, but in June 2013 officially requested to join [[Asgard]] to which entry was denied{{Ref|?}}
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Currently, the Netherlands is a member of the [[Orion]] alliance.
  
 
The Netherlands often delivered prominent citizens into high-ranking positions within these organisations:  
 
The Netherlands often delivered prominent citizens into high-ranking positions within these organisations:  
  
 
* Founding member of '''[[Mediterranean Alliance ]]''' - ''disbanded July 2008''
 
* Founding member of '''[[Mediterranean Alliance ]]''' - ''disbanded July 2008''
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* Founding member of [[File:PEACE-Seal.png|19px]] '''[[PEACE Global Community|PEACE]]''' - ''Netherlands withdrew 23 November 2009 together with [[Brazil]] after many other countries left already'' {{eLink|articlehttp://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1048383}}
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* Founding member of [[File:PEACE-Seal.png|19px]] '''[[PEACE Global Community|PEACE]]''' - ''Netherlands withdrew 23 November 2009 together with [[Brazil]] after many other countries left already''{{Ref|e|article|1048383}}
 
* Founding member of [[File:Icon-Phoenix.png|20px]] '''[[Phoenix]]''' - ''disbanded February 2011''
 
* Founding member of [[File:Icon-Phoenix.png|20px]] '''[[Phoenix]]''' - ''disbanded February 2011''
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* Member of [[File:Flag-GEA.png|20px]]'''[[Garden of EDEN Alliance|GEA]]''' - ''11 December 2011{{Ref|e|article|1922885|[EDEN] new wolf joins the pack}} - 23 June 2012 as an EDEN trial-member''
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* Member of [[File:Icon-EDEN.png|20px]] - '''[[EDEN]]''' ''24 June 2012 {{Ref|e|article|2067916|New Era in the Brotherhood}} - 16 February 2013 {{Ref|e|article|2213678}}''
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* Member of [[File:Icon-EDEN.png|20px]] - '''[[EDEN]]''' ''24 June 2012{{Ref|e|article|2067916|New Era in the Brotherhood}} - 16 February 2013{{Ref|e|article|2213678}}''
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* Member of [[File:Flag-Orion.jpg|20px]] - '''[[Orion]]''' ''December 2015{{Ref|e|article|2570042|Orion Official}} - Current''
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The Netherlands has mutual protection pacts with the following nation(s):
 
The Netherlands has mutual protection pacts with the following nation(s):
 
{{MPPList|Netherlands}}
 
{{MPPList|Netherlands}}
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==Links ==
 
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* [http://www.enetherlands.nl/ eNetherlands General Forum]
 
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{{Regions|country=Netherlands}}
 
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Revision as of 12:42, 27 May 2019

Languages: 
EnglishIcon-English.png
NederlandsIcon-Netherlands.png
Netherlands
Flag of Netherlands   Coat of Arms of Netherlands

On the map


General
General rank 54 ▼
Country power 308 ▲
Anthem Wilhelmus
Motto Je maintiendrai
Capital Western Netherlands
Alliance Orion
Demographics
Language English, Dutch
Population 158 ▼
Average level 56 ▲
Politics
President Notie112
Party Revolution et Libertas
Political titles
vCP ElGorro
MoD BangIades
MoFA Kordak
Governor Janty F
Economics
Currency Flag-Netherlands.jpg NLG (Nederlandse Gulden, Dutch Guilder)
Minimum salary Flag-Netherlands.jpg 1.00 NLG ▬
Average salary Flag-Netherlands.jpg 1070.89 NLG ▲
Food bonus 0%
Weapon bonus 0%
House bonus 10%
Aircraft bonus 0%
Military
Territories 3

Map of Netherlands

Last update 19 March 2019

The Netherlands is a medium-sized country in the North-West of Europe. The Netherlands originally consists out of 4 regions, named after the 4 directions of the wind (Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Netherlands). It borders with 6 regions of 4 foreign countries. It has a small but active population. The Netherlands had been on and off the map since 2011 due to the location of a historic Oil resource in the Western Netherlands, which used to be a keen interest by Icon-Poland.png Poland. Since the resource shuffle, the Netherlands is now standing pretty steady on the world map as the oil resource was removed from the region of Western Netherlands. At this moment, The Netherlands are renting their food and weapons resources to Icon-Iran.png Iran.

Icon achievement Society Builder on.gif Society

Community

The community is diverse, consisting of many RL-Dutch, followed by several people from abroad. The Dutch community has generally been seen as an international orientated country, given the fact the English language is widely used in media and day-to-day communication.

Government publications

Articles in newspapers and international messages are nearly always written in English and sometimes accompanied by a Dutch translation.

Icon achievement Resistance Hero on.gif History

The Netherlands was a founding member of the Mediterranean Alliance , Icon-PEACE.png PEACE and the Icon-Phoenix.png Phoenix alliance systems and often delivered prominent citizens into high-ranking positions within those organisations. The Netherlands formed for almost a year a union together with Icon-Belgium.png Belgium called the Icon-United Netherlands.png United Netherlands. The Netherlands joined Flag-GEA.pngGEA late 2011 and in 2012 the Netherlands was accepted as a full member of Icon-EDEN.pngEDEN which it left begin of 2013. December of 2015 it joined Flag-Orion.jpg Orion.


Paper-Compass.png Geography

|- | Region-Western Netherlands.png | align=left | Western Netherlands | align=left | Icon - Grain.pngIcon - Fruits.pngIcon - Cattle.pngIcon - Deer.png | Amsterdam | 282 ▲ |- | Region-Southern Netherlands.png | align=left | Southern Netherlands | align=left | Icon - Limestone.pngIcon - Cobalt.pngIcon - Titanium.pngIcon - Wolfram.png | Maastricht | 84 ▲ |- | Region-Eastern Netherlands.png | align=left | Eastern Netherlands | align=left | Icon - Fish.pngIcon - Magnesium.png | Arnhem | 185 ▲ |- | Region-Northern Netherlands.png | align=left | Northern Netherlands | align=left | None | Groningen | 89 ▲ |} Updated: 31/03/2023

Icon achievement Hard Worker on.gif Economy

Currency

The currency of the Netherlands is the Dutch Guilder or Nederlandse Gulden (NLG)


Product Work Tax Import Tax VAT
Icon - Food Q3.png Food 3% 2% 2%
Icon - Weapon Q2.png Weapon 3% 2% 2%
Icon - Aircraft Q1.png Aircraft weapon 3% 1% 2%
Icon - Moving ticket Q3.png Moving ticket 3% 2% 2%
Icon - House Q3.png House 3% 1% 1%
Raw material Work Tax Import Tax VAT
Icon - Food Raw Materials.png Food raw material 3% 1% -
Icon - Weapon Raw Materials.png Weapon raw material 3% 1% -
Icon - Aircraft Weapon Raw Materials.png Aircraft weapon raw material 3% 1% -
Icon - House Raw Materials.png House raw material 3% 1% -


This country doesn't have any trading embargoes at the moment.


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Wetboek.png Constitution and Law

Main article: Lawbook of the Netherlands

The law is determined by a majority vote in Congress. The leading law is the constitution (in it's amended form). An overview of all laws can be found in the Lawbook of the Netherlands, managed by the Chairman of Congress is UNL Binnenhof newspapers.

Icon position party president.gif Political parties

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The Dutch Congress, known as the Tweede Kamer (Second chamber)

The legislative chamber of the country is also referred to as Congress or Parliament. It debates on laws and other proposals.

The Congress of the Netherlands is the highest legislative body. With a 66% percent majority, Congress can change anything. (In order to amend the constitution, two votes needs to be held in two consecutive terms).

In the Netherlands, the Congress debates are public to all citizens, made through the articles released by UNL Binnenhof newspapers (with the exception of privater or sensitive matters, which are solved via Congress mass messages. Voting is done in Congress mass messages, the results of the vote are published in articles released by UNL Binnenhof newspapers. Every citizen of the Netherlands may participate in public Congress debates, however only Congress-members may vote on proposals. The Congress is managed by the Chairman of Congress and his deputy the, they manage the debates (opening and closing debates and votes, tame the incidental flamewar)

Congress

31.58%

22.81%

19.30%

14.04%

12.28%


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Role of the President in the Netherlands

The Country President (CP) is the formal head of state, government and military, although the President’s powers are limited by the constitutional and congressional legal order of the Netherlands.
The President resides in Het Catshuis where he publishes in the Presidential Newspaper.

Presidential History

File:Rijksoverheid-s.jpg Government

  • The Country President is the formal head of state, government and military.
  • The Government consists of the NL President, the NL vice-President and the NL Ministers
  • The NL Government is responsible for the daily management of the Netherlands.
Government formation
  • The Government is formed after the Country President Elections by the Country President.

Current Government

Previous Governments

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NL Krijgsmacht.png Armed Forces of the Netherlands

The Armed Forces of the Netherlands consist of one Military unit called Dutch Armed Forces, who is officially supported by the Dutch state. They are directly operated from the Dutch Ministry of Defense and the President.

Wars and Conflict

The Netherlands currently have a training war with Poland and Estonia.

Military units

|- | Dutch Armed Forces | Dutch Armed Forces.jpg | Shawtyl0w | 196 ▲ | 25 ▼ |- | Praetorian Guard NL | Praetorian Guards.jpg | Zeeuwsmeisje | 58 ▲ | 3 ▼ |- | Progressive MU | Progressive.jpg | Chean | 50 ▲ | 2 ▼ |- | Phoenix | | Persian Hawk | 11 | 11 |- | 0 EBars | | Terrifier | 5 | 5 |- | Royal Dutch Airlines | | Erkan Z | 2 | 1 |- | Qualia | | Feynmann | 1 | 1 |- | The Flying Dutchman | The Flying Dutchman.jpg | RFZG | 1 ▼ | 1 ▼ |- | The Netherlands | The netherlands.jpg | Arcanic Mindje | 1 ▬ | 0 ▼ |- | eNL Benevolent Dictator | ENL Benevolent Dictator.png | Trannsvaal | 1 ▬ | 0 ▼ |- | Alpha Unit | Alphaunit.jpg | N/A | 1 ▬ | 0 ▬ |- | De Oranjewacht | De Oranjewacht.jpg | Xyrrath | 1 ▬ | 0 ▬ |- | eNL Army | ENL Army.jpg | N/A | 1 ▬ | 0 ▬ |- |} Updated: 31/03/2023

Alliances

Currently, the Netherlands is a member of the Orion alliance.

The Netherlands often delivered prominent citizens into high-ranking positions within these organisations:

  • Founding member of Mediterranean Alliance - disbanded July 2008
  • Founding member of Seal-PEACE.png PEACE - Netherlands withdrew 23 November 2009 together with Brazil after many other countries left already[1]
  • Founding member of Icon-Phoenix.png Phoenix - disbanded February 2011
  • Member of Flag-GEA.pngGEA - 11 December 2011[2] - 23 June 2012 as an EDEN trial-member
  • Member of Icon-EDEN.png - EDEN 24 June 2012[3] - 16 February 2013[4]
  • Member of Flag-Orion.jpg - Orion December 2015[5] - Current

MPP's

The Netherlands has mutual protection pacts with the following nation(s):

This country doesn't have any mutual protection pacts at the moment.


Links

Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands portal


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