Named after the 18th century conservative philosopher Edmund Burke, the Edmund Burke Foundation was founded in 2000 by a group of young conservatives, including professor Andreas Kinneging and journalist Bart Jan Spruyt, unsatisfied with the consensus of Dutch politics, the level of public debate and what they believe is the dangerous drift of philosophy and culture in the Netherlands.

A study by psychologists Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammars, of the Netherlands ' Tilburg University, to be published in September 2012 in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, found that in the social sciences academics admit that they would discriminate against conservatives.

He successfully merged the two Dutch Boy Scout organisations Nederlandse Padvinders Organisatie ( NPO, Netherlands Pathfinder Organisation ) and the Nederlandse Padvinders Bond ( NPB, Netherlands Pathfinder Federation ) on 11 December 1915 to form De Nederlandse Padvinders ( NPV, The Netherlands Pathfinders ).

Not much changed during the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, only a number of smaller municipalities were merged.

* DB Schenker Rail Nederland in the Netherlands ( formerly NS Cargo, then Railion Nederland ) ( NS Cargo merged with Railion in 2000 )

The Klabautermann ( also spelt Klaboterman and Klabotermann ) is a creature from the beliefs of fishermen and sailors of Germany's north coast, the Netherlands, and the Baltic Sea, and may represent a third type of kobold or possibly a different spirit that has merged with kobold traditions.

* The Netherlands Radio Union ( NRU ) and the Netherlands Television Foundation ( NTS ) merged to form the NOS, charged with providing news and sport programmes as well as general co-ordination of the public system.

On 9 December 2010, the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation merged with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

In 1964, the southern studbook opened a " Sportregister " with the aim of producing riding horses, and in 1969 the NWP and southern studbook merged to form the KWPN, the Royal Warmblood Horse Studbook of the Netherlands.

Growing out of the Roman Catholic Church, it came into being the 1570s and lasted until 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

* Netherlands New Guinea ( transferred from Netherlands to UN in 1962, later merged with Indonesia ), was with OCT status

* 1987 The Leyland Trucks division of Rover Group ( formerly BL ) merged with DAF Trucks of The Netherlands, and was floated on the Dutch stock exchange as DAF NV.

Since 1 July 2009, the space-exploration activities of the NIVR are merged into the newly formed Netherlands Space Office ( NSO ).

* Nedlloyd, a Netherlands shipping line, later merged into P & O Nedlloyd and now part of Maersk Line

On September 23, 2009 it was announced, by the Commander Royal Netherlands Army, general Peter van Uhm, that all ground based air defense units, including the Air Force ’ s Guided Weapons Group ( GGW ) will be merged into a single Joint Air Defense Command at De Peel Air Base.

It collapsed in 1667 during the war with the Netherlands – the very war it started by having company Admiral Robert Holmes attack the Dutch African trade posts in 1664 – and re-emerged in 1672, having been merged with those of the Gambia Merchants ' Company into the new Royal African Company, with a royal charter to set up forts, factories, troops and to exercise martial law in West Africa, in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and slaves.

In 1973, the Medical Faculty Rotterdam and the Netherlands School of Economics merged to become Erasmus University Rotterdam – the first university in the Netherlands named after a person, a man to whom Rotterdam owes the reputation it has held for centuries in the academic world.

* Guyana, known as British Guiana from 1831 until 1966, after the colonies of Berbice, Essequibo, and Demerara, taken from the Netherlands in 1814, were merged into a single colony

The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (, abbreviated Gereformeerde kerk ) was the second largest Protestant church in the Netherlands until it merged into the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in 2004.

The Rhine, in turn, empties into the North Sea after crossing into the Netherlands.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

* 1566 – Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands.

This system would be implemented into the national response plan for bioweapons attacks in the Netherlands.

Larger cities in the Netherlands are often divided into boroughs, or stadsdelen

The Seine-Nord Europe Canal is being developed into a major transportation waterway, linking France with Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.

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.

This brought them into conflict with Britain and the Dutch Republic, which wished to preserve the independence of the southern Netherlands from France.

Many people from Indonesia and Suriname, and later from other countries as well, moved to the Netherlands, which resulted in the transformation of the country into a multicultural society.

The Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek ( NSF ) company established a professional transmitter and radio factory in Hilversum in the early 1920s, growing into the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, and in 1948 being taken over by Philips.

A second German force was sent into Belgium and the Netherlands to act as a diversion to this main thrust.

In 1962 the United States pressured the Netherlands into secret talks with Indonesia which in August 1962 produced the New York Agreement, and Indonesia assumed administrative responsibility for West Irian on 1 May 1963.

Hence, in the Netherlands, all treaties and the orders of international organizations are effective without any action being required to convert international into municipal law.

In the Netherlands only 10 knightly families are still alive, a number which steadily decreases because in this country ennoblement or incorporation into the nobility is not possible anymore.

After occupation by Revolutionary France, the 1815 Treaty of Paris transformed Luxembourg into a Grand Duchy in personal union with the Netherlands.

Habsburg rule was confirmed in 1715 by the Treaty of Utrecht, and Luxembourg was integrated into the Austrian Netherlands.

* Agreement on Road Transport between Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands ( came into force 1. 12. 94 )

An office building is illuminated by sodium lamp | high pressure sodium ( HPS ) lamps shining upward, of which much light goes into the sky and neighboring apartment blocks and causes light pollution, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

* 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.

In the Netherlands, media studies are split into several academic courses such as ( applied ) communication sciences, communication-and information sciences, communication and media, media and culture or theater, film and television sciences.

He was less successful in turning France into a major trading power, and Britain and the Netherlands remained supreme in this field.

Because of its eccentric location in the Netherlands, and its geographical and cultural proximity to Belgium, integration of Maastricht and Limburg into the Netherlands did not come about easily.