The Amsterdam district councils are less and less successful in spending
their money. The total reserves in five years increased by more than a
hundred million euro, to a good 430 million euro in 2002. Especially money
earmarked for education and the reparation of school buildings remains
unspent o
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Dutch Prince swaps throne for love
Friday 10 October 2003, 21:59 Makka Time, 18:59 GMT
Dutch Prince Johan Friso, second in line to the throne, gave up his
succession rights after the Dutch government refused him permission to marry
his fiancee Mabel Wisse Smit. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balk
2 October 2003 - Socialist Party parliamentarians Jan Marijnissen and Krista
van Velzen stood in front of a class at their old school a few days ago, to
teach a lesson about biotechnology. They did this under the auspices of a
campaign of the "Animal Awake Foundation" in which filmstar Georgina
Ver
I just watched the TV news, which featured a clip about the Dutch Queen
Beatrix opening a nuclear waste disposal plant in Vlissingen, in the Dutch
province of Zealand (close to the Belgian border), which will store waste
from the remaining nuclear power plant we have here, for a hundred years.
The
