Meanwhile French Armies overran the Netherlands and established the Batavian Republic, occupied the left bank of the Rhine and forced Spain, Prussia and several German States to sue for peace enhancing the prestige of the Convention.

Medco International, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, healthcare solutions focused on enhancing the quality of care for patients with chronic and complex conditions, improving therapeutic outcomes and helping to ease the growing financial burden on payors.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

However, Bulgaria ranks 51st in the Ease of Doing Business rank list, higher than most other Eastern European states, and 28th in the Economic Freedom of the World index, outperforming the Netherlands and South Korea.

The idea of being " born again in Christ " inspired some common European forenames: French René / Renée ( also used in the Netherlands ), Dutch Renaat / Renate, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Renato / Renata, Latin Renatus / Renata, which all mean " reborn ", " born again ".

The United States joined Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, Italy, and the Netherlands in 1949 to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the United States ' first " entangling " European alliance in 170 years.

* Sinnott, Roger W. and Perryman, Michael A. C. ( 1997 ) Millennium Star Atlas, Epoch 2000. 0, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., and European Space Agency ( ESA ), ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

The Netherlands and Italy were Chile's main European trading partners.

At the time of Croatia's application to the European Union, three EU countries were yet to ratify the Stabilization and Association Agreement: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy.

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.

A number of European countries, including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden, apply a strict liability towards cyclists, protecting them.

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The European colonial period was the era from the 1500s to, arguably, the 1900s when several European powers ( particularly, but not exclusively, Spain, Portugal, Britain, the Netherlands and France ) established colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

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.

The UK brought together several countries ( including some bordering the EEC ) and decided to form the European Free Trade Association in about 1959, soon after the establishment of the 6-nation EEC ( France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands ).

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 ).

* Neelie Kroes ( VVD, Netherlands ): Vice-President, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda

Some speculate that the dish may have been invented in Spain, the first European country in which the potato appeared via the New World colonies, and assumes the first appearance to have been as an accompaniment to fish dishes in Galicia, from which it spread to the rest of the country and further to the Spanish Netherlands, which became Belgium more than a century later.

The switch to synthetic surfaces ended Indian and Pakistani domination because artificial turf was too expensive — in comparison to the wealthier European countries — and since the 1970s Australia, The Netherlands and Germany have dominated at the Olympics.

However, Germany, along with some other larger European countries ( with the exception of the UK and the Netherlands ), have been criticised by the British and Canadians for not sharing the burden of the more intensive combat operations in southern Afghanistan.

Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400 – 1800 ( 2008 ) 360pp essays by scholars covering German and Italian territories, the Netherlands, France, and England ; plus guilds in cloth spinning, painting, glass blowing, goldsmithing, pewterware, book-selling, and clock making.

The phenomenon has spread to other European countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

Radiocarbon dating of subfossil or fossil European ( Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom ) coastal remains confirms this, with whaling the possible cause.

Inhume, from the Netherlands, Rotten Sound, from Finland, and Leng Tch ' e, from Belgium, were subsequent European groups who practiced grindcore with death metal inflections.

The United States and the majority of European liberal democracies at the time ( United Kingdom, France, Italy, Netherlands, West Germany ( Federal Republic of Germany ), etc.

This was reflected in part by the rejection of the European Constitution in referendums in France and the Netherlands.

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.

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 Socialist Party ( SP ), in its first years a radical socialist / communist party, a Maoist split from the Communist Party Netherlands, is now a big socialist party, very conservative on economic issues and advocating more socialism, government control but at the same time taking more conservative positions on issues like integration and national identity than the PvdA, generally populist.

Belgium has been involved in ( sub ) regional integration since the first half of the 20th century, first with the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union, founded in 1925, and then, since 1944, with the Netherlands and Luxembourg in the Benelux.

Every person who wants to immigrate into the Netherlands must pass an integration test.

In November 2006, Ricoh announced the integration of the head office of Ricoh Europe B. V. ( REBV ) in Amstelveen, Netherlands, with NRG's European headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

A single country organisation was created in Austria on July 1, 2007, the UK integration being currently in process and integration also taking place in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

2009 in Netherlands on 62 mothers and children to estimate associations between 12 Organohalogen compounds ( OHCs ), including polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) and brominated diphenyl ether ( PBDE ) flame retardants, measured in maternal serum during the 35th week of pregnancy and motor performance ( coordination, fine motor skills ), cognition ( intelligence, visual perception, visuomotor integration, inhibitory control, verbal memory, and attention ), and behavior scores at 5 – 6 years of age.

The issue of migration and integration however, and especially the place of the Islam in the Netherlands.

Focusing his campaign on issues of immigration, integration and the state of the public sector, Fortuyn was intent on exposing the PvdA as being responsible for what he termed, Eight years of Purple ruin – referring to the red and blue combination of the social and liberal coalition that had governed the Netherlands during the preceding eight years.

Notwithstanding Moluccan integration into modern Dutch society has halted terrorist radicalisation, up to the 1990s the Netherlands were reminded yearly of the traumatic side of their colonial past, when celebrations of the RMS independence declaration frequently resulted in flared sentiments or even heavy riots in the streets of the capital.

One of the first and oldest Indo organisations that supported the integration of Indo repatriates into the Netherlands is the Pelita foundation.

Apart from the rebellious Indo rockers led by Andy Tielman most Indos either compliantly focused on civil integration or immigrated from the Netherlands.

This sparked debate about radical Islam in the Netherlands, and on immigration and integration ( or lack thereof ) as well.

The integration of the International Patent Institute into the European Patent Organisation led in practice to the creation of the branch of the European Patent Office ( EPO ) at Rijswijk in The Netherlands ( a suburb of The Hague ).

Following several assignments abroad ( 1966-1969: Deputy Consul General in São Paulo, Brazil ; 1975-1979: Commercial and Economic Counsellor at the Spanish Embassy in the Hague, the Netherlands ) and in Spain ( 1969 – 1975: Head of Economic Studies at the Diplomatic School ; Director of Technological Agreements in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Industry ) he dedicated a great part of his professional career to the process of integration of Spain into the European Communities.