Topic: Wim Kok

Netherlands The Year In Review 1997

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 585 days ago
A major conference of the European Union (EU) was held June 16-18, 1997, in Amsterdam. Queen Beatrix delivered her traditional speech to open the new parliamentary year. The minister had supported a resolution by the EU condemning the human rights situation in ...

Netherlands The Year In Review 2001

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 585 days ago
The Dutch economy was strong in 2001-jobs were plentiful; incomes went up across the board; and the government continued to invest in public projects and in strengthening the economy. Though the euro was about to become the only legal tender in January ...

Netherlands The Year In Review 2002

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 585 days ago
On April 10 the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation published its report following five years of research into the massacre that took place in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in July 1995, when more than 7,000 Islamic men and boys were murdered while the ...

Airline: All 134 survive plane crash in Amsterdam

AP Features - 1081 days ago
A Turkish Airlines plane with 134 people aboard slammed into a field and broke into three pieces while attempting to land at Amsterdam's main airport on Wednesday. (0622 GMT) bound for Amsterdam. The Boeing 737-800 crashed next to a runway at ...