Other prominent European pop and disco groups were Luv ' from the Netherlands and Boney M, a group of four West Indian singers and dancers masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian.

In October 1997, she tied for second in a double round-robin tournament of four grand masters in the VAM International Tournament in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands.

* 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

Postal codes in the Netherlands are formed of four digits then two letters ( in capitals ), separated by a space —< tt > 1234 AB </ tt >, for example.

The foreign policy of the Netherlands is based on four basic commitments: to the Atlantic cooperation, to European integration, to international development and to international law.

The drug policy of the Netherlands officially has four major objectives:

* New Rules, No Drugs website explains the new rules for the sale of cannabis in The Netherlands in four languages.

However, North American races were usually conducted packstyle, similar to the marathon races in the Netherlands, but the Olympic races were to be held over the four ISU-approved distances.

Examples include Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus in Austria, the RampART Social Centre in England, OT301 in the Netherlands and Ungdomshuset in Denmark ( evicted on March 1, 2007 and demolished four days later ).

* March 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.

The Brigade comprised a number of troops varying between four and five thousand, drawn from units pledged by eleven countries: Argentina, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden.

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, after a controversial second-round match between Portugal and the Netherlands, which saw referee Valentin Ivanov issue a record 16 yellow cards and four red cards, Blatter was said to have lambasted the officiating referee, and said that Ivanov should have given himself a yellow card for his poor performance as a referee.

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands, the eldest of four children of Adam Zelle ( 2 October 1840 – 13 March 1910 ) and his first wife Antje van der Meulen ( 21 April 1842 – 9 May 1891 ).

In the Netherlands GroenLinks (" GreenLeft ") was founded in 1990 from four small left-wing parties and is now a stable faction in the Dutch parliament.

Gemser left Indonesia in 1955, at the age of four, and moved with her parents to the Netherlands.

France is now one of only four nations ( along with Italy, Argentina and the Netherlands ) to have shut Brazil out twice in the World Cup finals, and the first to have done it in consecutive matches, both times with Barthez in goal.

According to OECD, " these systems are used in Italy ( with some fees ), in all four countries of the United Kingdom ( with some fees and allowances for specific services ), Austria ( with fees for specific services ), Denmark ( one third of income with remainder fee for service ), Ireland ( since 1989 ), the Netherlands ( fee-for-service for privately insured patients and public employees ) and Sweden ( from 1994 ).

** Awak Sungai, established 17th century at the split in four of Minangkabau, in 1816 extinguished by Netherlands East Indies colonial government

In the Netherlands, sales of elm cultivars slumped from over 56, 000 in 1989 to just 6, 800 in 2004, whilst in the UK, only four of the new American and European releases were commercially available in 2008.

Each of the four countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands ( The Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten ) has its own constitution.

A highlight of the collection is the four Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, very rare 15th century tapestries, woven in the Netherlands, depicting the hunting of various animals ; not just their age but their size make these unique.

From August 7, 1948 to December 22, 1958 he was Prime Minister of the Netherlands in four successive cabinets Drees I, Drees II, Drees III and Drees IV.

The city council is elected every four years during municipal elections, at the same time as in most other municipalities of the Netherlands.

William I, the King of the Netherlands, incorporated four regiments of Swiss infantry in the new Dutch Army between 1814 and 1829, of which the 4th ( Regiment Swiss nr.

According to Alan Ware, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK retained viable conservative parties into the 1980s.

Interestingly, settlements involving injured parties from outside The Netherlands can also be declared binding by the Court.

However, such zero-tolerance policy at dance parties are now becoming common in the Netherlands and are even stricter in cities like Arnhem.

Whereas the ruling parties campaigned for the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, the people voted for a restructuring of the Netherlands Antilles.

Category: Defunct political parties in the Netherlands

However, nations with proportional voting may differ in that some emphasize the individuals within the parties, such as the system in the Netherlands, while other nations only allow voting for parties, such as in the Italian electoral system.

The treaty has been ratified by 27 parties — Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay

By 2010, such parties ( albeit often significant differences between them ) were present in the national parliaments of Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Greece.

All major political parties in the Netherlands have state-sponsored research foundations that play a role in shaping policy.

* GreenLeft of the Netherlands: a political party that began 1989 as an electoral alliance comprising the Communist Party of the Netherlands, Pacifist Socialist Party and the Christian left parties Evangelical People's Party and Political Party of Radicals.

In the Netherlands, children often eat it with their fries ; " patat met appelmoes " is a traditional dish at children's birthday parties.

Due to financial difficulties for all parties involved and the fact that The Netherlands did not get to organize the FIFA World Cup of 2018, the plans for a new stadium have been put on hold.

During the 1980s, independent parties began to spread to other parts of the Netherlands.

# REDIRECT List of political parties in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands Calvinist Protestants have long had their own political parties, now called the Reformed Political Party ( SGP ) on the right, and the ChristianUnion ( CU ) in the center.

Both parties agreed to the formation of the ' United States of Indonesia ' by 1 January 1949, a semi-autonomous federal state with the Monarchy of the Netherlands at its head.

In Sweden and The Netherlands, Jolt cola is heavily associated with LAN parties.

Category: Defunct political parties in the Netherlands

Category: Confessional parties in the Netherlands

As part of the so-called Dutch ' Bible belt ', a vast majority of election votes go to the three Christian parties in the Netherlands, SGP, ChristenUnie and CDA.

GreenLeft was formed on 1 March 1989 as a merger of four left-wing political parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical People's Party.