Unlike France or Germany, there are no special administrative courts of first instance in the Netherlands, but regular courts have an administrative " chamber " which specializes in administrative appeals.

In any case, Marlborough had promised to return to the Netherlands if a French attack developed there, transferring his troops down the Rhine on barges at a rate of a day.

The first option ( although it is debatable to what extent the Duke was committed to such an enterprise ) was a plan to transfer his forces from the Spanish Netherlands to northern Italy ; once there, he intended linking up with Prince Eugene in order to defeat the French and safeguard Savoy from being overrun.

Due in part to this recent exposure, there are now an estimated 100, 000 participants scattered around the rest of the world in countries including Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Of the 27 member states of the European Union, there are two with ELDR-affiliated Prime Ministers: Andrus Ansip in Estonia ( Reform Party ), and Mark Rutte in the Netherlands ( VVD ).

In 1698, he went to the Netherlands, and there became acquainted with Pierre Bayle, Pierre Jurieu and Jacques Basnage.

A study in the Netherlands found that children to non-Western immigrants had improvements for g, educational achievements, and work proficiency compared to their parents although there were still remaining differences to ethnic Dutch.

After the Restoration, there was an overall reduction in the power of the crown, and by the 18th century England rivaled the Netherlands for being one of the freest countries in Europe.

In some countries ( Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland ), there are other editions that lack some features such as Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center and Internet Explorer called names such as " Windows 7 N ."

This time there was no invasion of the Netherlands, and Britain remained neutral.

Inter IKEA Systems B. V. in Delft, also in the Netherlands, owns the IKEA concept and trademark, and there is a franchising agreement with every IKEA store in the world.

In the Netherlands there are currently 12 institutions regarded as TBS-clinics:

Locke fled to the Netherlands in 1683, under strong suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot, although there is little evidence to suggest that he was directly involved in the scheme.

In the Netherlands there are around 580 clubs, and over 100, 000 people playing korfball.

Additionally there remain a few hereditary knights in the Netherlands.

The sometimes cloudy, cold, wet weather of the Netherlands allowed him to focus intently on his works, and only during 1962, when he underwent surgery, was there a time when no new images were created.

As of 2004, there were 102 VMS signs in the Netherlands.

Radio broadcast stations: AM 9, FM 4 ( 1998 ), shortwave 1 ( Radio Netherlands transmits programs to North and South America from there )

At the same time as there were local underground priests and bishops, the Pope considered the Catholic Church in The Netherlands to be mission territory and no longer the traditional Bishopric of Utrecht.

Currently, there are hundreds of samba schools held on European soil and scattered among countries like Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.

The city has a limited student culture due to its lack of an actual university, although the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and The Royal Academy of Art is located there, as well as The Hague University, a vocational university and a branch of The Open University of the Netherlands.

Many streets are named after places in the Netherlands East Indies ( as well as other former Dutch colonies such as Suriname ) and there is a sizable " Indo " ( i. e. mixed Dutch-Indonesian ) community.

There are also countries – such as Portugal, South Africa, Finland, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Macedonia – that have proportional representation systems without a threshold, although the Netherlands has a rule that the first seat can never be a remainder seat, which means that there is an effective threshold of 100 % divided by the total number of seats.

* 2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

* 1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

A fax from the Secretary of the International Narcotics Control Board to the Netherlands Ministry of Public Health sent in 2001 goes on to state that " Consequently, preparations ( e. g. decoctions ) made of these plants, including ayahuasca, are not under international control and, therefore, not subject to any of the articles of the 1971 Convention.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

In The Netherlands, administrative law provisions are usually contained in separate laws.

Another Dutch hip-hop duo are Pete Philly and Perquisite who are already well known in the Netherlands, Germany, and even in Japan.

Other commercial rappers are De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, and one of the more popular artists in the Netherlands, Partysquad or The Partysquad.

The only survivors of the vicinal / buurtspoor system are the Kusttram ( covering almost the entire coast from France to the Netherlands, being the longest tram line in the world ) and some sections of the Charleroi Pre-metro.

The only difference is that in the chorus, instead of singing " These are men, America's best ", they sing " These are men, The Netherlands ' best ".

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

Many of these vehicles are second hand ( such as the 1500 decommissioned Dutch buses, which the Netherlands donated to Cuba in the mid 1990s ) and despite the United States trade embargo, American-style yellow school buses ( imported second-hand from Canada ) are increasingly common sights.

Today constitutional monarchies are mostly associated with Western European countries such as the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Sweden.

Furthermore, in the Netherlands, drivers know to expect a high volume of cyclist traffic and bicycle paths are widespread and ( in the cities ) closed to scooters.

There are process and product guidelines in Europe that date to the early 1980s ( Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland ) and only more recently in the UK and the US.

For example, so-called " intercity " trains in Belgium and the Netherlands carry many commuters and their equipment, range and speeds are similar to those of commuter trains in some larger countries.

Military of the Netherlands identity tags, like the Canadian and Norwegian ones, are designed to be broken in two in case of a fatality ; the lower end is returned to Dutch Defence Headquarters, while the upper half remains on the body.

In the Netherlands, the government funds " bijzondere " (" special ") schools, which are run by independent non-profit boards, on the condition that they charge no more tuition than public schools do and otherwise abide by practically the same rules as public schools.

Any voucher proposals in the Netherlands, and countries with similar systems such as Belgium, are complicated by the historical background of the " school struggle ".