Greater Netherlands is an irredentist concept which unites the Netherlands, Flanders, and sometimes including Brussels. Additionally, a Greater Netherlands state may include the annexation of the French Westhoek, Suriname, formerly Dutch-speaking areas of Germany and France, or even the ethnically Dutch and/or Afrikaans-speaking parts of South Africa, though such variants are mostly limited to far-right groups. A related proposal is the Pan-Netherlands concept, which includes Wallonia and potentially also Luxembourg.
The Democratic Socialists '70 was a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands.
Gaston Cyriel Durnez was a Flemish columnist, journalist and writer. He worked for the newspaper De Standaard, and was one of the founders of the Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging. He was also the writer of De Geschiedenis van Sleenovia (1965), a comic strip by Willy Vandersteen and Edward De Rop, featuring characters from Marc Sleen's The Adventures of Nero, which was subject of a fierce copyright battle between the newspapers De Standaard and Het Volk.
The Peeters directive, officially Circular BA 97/22 of 16 December 1997 concerning the use of languages in municipal councils of the Dutch language area, is a circulaire of the Flemish government regulating the use of languages in municipal councils in the Flemish Region (Belgium), where the sole official language is Dutch. The directive is more in particular aimed at the municipalities with language facilities bordering the Brussels Capital-Region. It stipulates that each and every time French-speakers deal with the government, they must explicitly ask for their documents to be in French.
Willem Philippe Maria "Wim" Zaal was a Dutch journalist, essayist, translator and literary critic. He was literary editor of Elsevier for years.
Adri van Heteren is a Dutch Christian minister in the Christian Reformed Churches and a politician. He has been chairperson of the Reformed Political Party (SGP) since 28 February 2004.
The League of Communists in the Netherlands was a communist party in the Netherlands.
Wina Born-Meijer was a Dutch journalist. She is often named as de moeder van de Nederlandse gastronomie. She has written about a hundred cookbooks and countless articles in magazines, like Margriet and Avenue.
Jacob (Jaap) Nunes Vaz was a Dutch journalist, writer, and editor. He was one of the main editors of Het Parool, an illegal Dutch newspaper founded during World War II.
Meindert Fennema is a Dutch political scientist and Emeritus Professor of political science, who was attached to the Department of Political Science and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam, where he held the chair on Political Theory of Ethnic Relations.
Remieg A. M. Aerts is a Dutch historian and Professor of Dutch History at University of Amsterdam.
Hendrik Ulbo Eric"Bonno"Thoden van Velzen was a Dutch anthropologist, Surinamist and Africanist.
Forum for Democracy is a right-wing populist Eurosceptic political party in the Netherlands that was founded as a think tank by Thierry Baudet and Henk Otten in 2016. The party first participated in elections in the 2017 general election, winning two seats in the House of Representatives. In the 2019 provincial elections, it won the most seats out of any party, although 61 out of 86 representatives have since defected.
Paul J. Begheyn is a Dutch Jesuit historian.
Petrus Josephus"Peter"van Kessel is a Dutch historian. He spent his career at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, ultimately becoming vice director.
De Basis, formerly known as the Basic Income Party, is a minor political party in the Netherlands, which advocates for the implementation of a universal basic income. The party registered with the electoral council on 9 December 2013.
Island council elections were held in the Netherlands Antilles in 1955. They were the second elections for the Island Council.
Volt Netherlands is a social-liberal political party in the Netherlands. It is the Dutch branch of Volt Europa, a political movement that operates on a European level.
Pan-Netherlands, sometimes translated as Whole-Netherlands, is an irredentist concept which aims to unite the Low Countries into a single state. It is an example of Pan-Nationalism.
The Democratic Party was a left liberal political party in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1921 by Jan Ernst Heeres when the Liberal Union, of which he was president, failed to merge with the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB), and instead merged with the more conservative League of Free Liberals and Economic League.
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