MCP received this order from the Dutch government because their computer met all the technical and other demands, including the demand that the computers should be of Dutch origin and should be built in the Netherlands.

While some argued for the seat of government to move to Berlin, others advocated leaving it in Bonn — a situation roughly analogous to that of the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the capital but The Hague is the seat of government.

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Belgium, for example, the Monarch formally appoints a representative to preside over the creation of a coalition government following a parliamentary election, while in Norway the King chairs special meetings of the cabinet.

From 1515 to 1523, the Habsburg government in the Netherlands also had to contend with the Frisian peasant rebellion, led first by Pier Gerlofs Donia and then by his nephew Wijerd Jelckama.

When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.

Held in the care of the Dutch government, the Kröller-Müller Museum was opened in 1938 near the town of Otterlo in the Netherlands.

Following bankruptcy, the VOC was formally dissolved in 1800, and the government of the Netherlands established the Dutch East Indies as a nationalised colony.

Such countries where it is permissible and legal, includes the Netherlands and Sweden where incestuous couples must seek government counseling before marriage.

The German occupation of the Netherlands and France in May – June 1940 altered the situation for the Japanese government.

The Libyan government eventually surrendered the two Lockerbie bombing suspects in 1999 for trial at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands and UN sanctions were suspended.

Suriname and Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands in the period of decolonization: Suriname in 1975 and Indonesia in 1945 ( it was not until 16 August 2005 that the Dutch government recognized 1945-and not 1949-as the country's year of independence ).

Despite the high priority given by the Dutch government to fighting illegal drug trafficking, the Netherlands continue to be an important transit point for drugs entering Europe.

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

Queen Wilhelmina had promised in a 1942 speech to offer autonomy to the overseas territories of the Netherlands, and British and American occupation — with consent by the Dutch government — of the islands during the war led to increasing demands for autonomy within the population as well.

The government of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010.

The Socialist Party, the Green Party and Labour have a solid two-thirds majority in City Council, making Nijmegen the only major city in the Netherlands with a solely Left-wing government.

A new plan of municipal government was arranged in the Netherlands, and the name " New Amsterdam " was officially declared on 2 February 1653.

In a political sense in the Netherlands the word rijk often connotes a connection with the Kingdom of the Netherlands as opposed to the European part of the country ; the ministerraad is the executive body of the Netherlands ' government and the rijksministerraad that of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a similar distinction is found in wetten ( laws ) versus rijkswetten ( kingdom laws ).

The Netherlands has provided limited military assistance to the Surinamese armed forces since the election of a democratic government in 1991.

Like many of the programmes managed by FAO, the funds for Farmer Field Schools came from bilateral Trust Funds, with Australia, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland acting as the leading donors.

Smart-card-based " electronic purse " systems store funds on the card so that readers do not need network connectivity and entered service throughout Europe in the mid-1990s, most notably in Germany ( Geldkarte ), Austria ( Quick Wertkarte ), Belgium ( Proton ), France ( Mon € o ), the Netherlands ( Chipknip and Chipper ( decommissioned in 2001 )), Switzerland (" Cash "), Norway (" Mondex "), Sweden (" Cash ", decommissioned in 2004 ), Finland (" Avant "), UK (" Mondex "), Denmark (" Danmønt ") and Portugal (" Porta-moedas Multibanco ").

According to the coverage, in 1994 Levin accessed the accounts of several large corporate customers of Citibank via their dial-up wire transfer service ( Financial Institutions Citibank Cash Manager ) and transferred funds to accounts set up by accomplices in Finland, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and Israel.

Founded in 1999, AlpInvest has historically been the exclusive manager of private equity investments for the investment managers of two of the world's largest pension funds Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP ( ABP ) and Stichting Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn ( PFZW ), both based in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands a fee is charged on blank media which is passed on to " Stichting Thuiskopie " ( Foundation Homecopy ), which is in charge of distributing the funds.

Private schools rely on their own funds, but they are highly uncommon in the Netherlands, to the extent that even the Dutch monarchs have traditionally attended special or public schools.

United States, impressed by Indonesia's ability to defeat the 1948 communist challenge without outside help, threatened to cut-off Marshall Aid funds to Netherlands if military operations in Indonesia continued.

In the 17th century it was quite usual in the Netherlands to organize lotteries to collect money for the poor or in order to raise funds for all kinds of public usages.

In 1565, running short of funds as he had continued the representation of the Low Countries entirely from his own pocket, Egmont went to Madrid to beseech Philip II, the king of Spain, for a change of policy in the Netherlands, but met with little more than courtesy.

In the 1950s, he raised funds for a new radio telescope in Dwingeloo, in the east part of the Netherlands, to research the center of the galaxy.

The Hunger Project raises funds, via contributions, in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Examples of this are common in the European Union, where in London the Virgin Corporation funds the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, and in Germany and the Netherlands a large number of the ' Christoph ' air ambulance operations are actually funded by ADAC, Germany's largest automobile club.

After her time as minister Kroes became a member of the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce, furthermore she served as a board member for Ballast Nedam ( shipping ), ABP-PGGM Capital Holdings N. V. ( a joint subsidiary of the pension funds ABP and PGGM ), NIB ( an investment bank ), McDonald's Netherlands, Nedlloyd, and Nederlandse Spoorwegen ( the Dutch railroad company ).

Among the accusations against Vesco were that he parked funds belonging to IOS investors in a series of dummy corporations, one of which had an Amsterdam address that was later linked to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and that he broke into a Swiss bank vault to obtain shares.

However, the funds solicited from the project by the REM island project were later used to launch a legitimate and fully licensed station in the Netherlands.

This is responsible for all war commemoration activities, such as Remembrance Day, and coordinates and funds various " pilgrimages " for Canadian war veterans to foreign battlefields and international ceremonies ( e. g. the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands in early 1995, the 60th anniversary of D Day on June 6, 2004, etc.

Using his own funds, Sir George Downing, the English ambassador to the Netherlands, raised the Holland Regiment from the starving remnants of those who refused to sign.

In Rhenen, to the west of Arnheim, the family lived on saved public funds and the generous support of the English king, initially also of the Netherlands, united by the support of the government.

Many DMFAS user countries were HIPCs, and this fact made that developed donor countries responded with alacrity to UNCTAD / DMFAS call: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the U. K. responded positively to support the DMFAS Programme, either by depositing resources with UNCTAD technical cooperation trust funds or by putting at the disposal of the Programme Junior Professional Officers ( JPOs ), and in some cases, senior officers as well.

Ultimately Linnemann and his group pursued their research with funds they had already mobilised in the Netherlands and published their results independently ( MOIRA-Model of International Relations in Agriculture, 1979 ), not as a Report to the Club of Rome.

Achilles Netherlands Holdings B. V., a company formed by funds managed by private equity firms Apollo Management and CVC Capital Partners, agreed to acquire the firm for £ 888 million in October 2010.

The modern-day Netherlands is divided into twelve provinces ( provincies in Dutch ) and three overseas special municipalities ( bijzondere gemeenten ) that are not part of a province.