Netherlands 2016

Yearbook 2016

Netherlands. In January, the government agreed to extend the Netherlands’ participation in the US-led air strikes against the Islamic State terrorist sector (IS) to include Syria. The country has participated in attacks against IS in Iraq since 2014. Prime Minister Mark Rutte pointed out that the terrorist attacks in Paris in November showed that IS posed a threat to security and “our way of life”. The United States and France had pushed for the Netherlands to participate in Syria, even though the country had previously wanted a UN mandate first.

According to countryaah, the current population of Netherlands is 17,134,883. An advisory referendum was held in April on the cooperation agreement that the EU has signed with Ukraine and which has tentatively entered into force. As a clear sign of growing EU resistance in the Netherlands, 61% voted against the agreement, even though turnout was low. Despite the result, Parliament voted down a motion that the Netherlands should withdraw from the agreement which the other 27 EU countries have already approved. Jasidan stressed that it was a trade agreement and not EU membership for Ukraine.

Netherlands Population 2016

The referendum in the UK in June, where a majority of voters voted for exit from the EU, further strengthened EU resistance in the Netherlands. The leader of the right-wing Extreme Freedom Party (PVV), Geert Wilders, pledged to make “nexit” – a Dutch exit – into an election issue ahead of the 2017 election. PVV, which had 15 of 150 seats in Parliament’s second chamber, was predicted to be the largest in the 2017 election.

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Geert Wilders was charged with having talked about throwing Moroccans out of the country during a mass meeting in 2015. He was convicted in December for insult and rioting, but not for the more serious crime being incited against a group of people. The PVV leader escaped sanction.

By the end of 96, unemployment had fallen to 6.6%. Economic growth was 2.7% due to an increase in exports and national consumption. In 1997, the Amsterdam City Council decided to continue the city’s expansion over Lake Ijmer, thus disregarding the result of a local referendum in March of that year.

In June 97, EU heads of state and government held a summit in Amsterdam to finalize the EU’s newest treaty – the Amsterdam Treaty. Parallel to the meeting, the European trade union movement and opposition organizations of the EU had convened extensive demonstrations. 30-40,000 people attended the protest demonstrations, which were met by a massive police rally that carried out massive “preventive” mass arrests. Together with protesters from most other European countries, about 100 Danes were interned, registered and deported from the Netherlands after a few days. It was not until 1999 that the many illegally detained were awarded compensation by the Dutch state.

In March 98, the EU demanded that the Netherlands and 5 other countries take special steps in the form of economic crisis packages to enable the introduction of the EU’s new coin, the Euro.

The election to Parliament’s second chamber in May 1998 strengthened the government coalition consisting of the Labor Party and the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, which received 29% and 24.7% of the votes respectively. Together with their partner Democracy 66, they could strengthen the government alliance. In the March 1999 general election, the Christian Democrats regained first place, becoming the largest party with 26% of the vote. However, the government coalition still had 50.6% of the vote.

A parliamentary debate which was scheduled to end in early 2001 should address the issue of active euthanasia. The government had already in 1999 approved the proposal, according to which people older than 12 can ask for active euthanasia. According to thereligionfaqs, if Parliament approves the proposal, the Netherlands will be the first country in the world to allow pity killings.

In December 2000, Parliament passed a law granting gay marriage the same legal status as heterosexuals. Another law gave them at the same time increased rights of adoption. The laws were passed by a large majority and their supporters declared that they give homosexuals greater rights than in any other European country.

The Criminal Tribunal for the Ex-Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced a historic ostrich in July 2001, when it sentenced a Croatian militiamen to 10 years in prison for rape and torture, as he had not prevented a soldier under his command from committing sexual assaults. The appeals court, consisting of 5 judges from the International Criminal Court, rejected the entire defense’s argument seeking to overturn the original judgment of December 1998. The appellate court’s sentence upheld the 1998 verdict and declared rape a war crime, and the 10-year prisoner Anto Furundzij was sentenced to 10 years in prison. to “contribute to torture” and 8 years to “assist and encourage” rape.