Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a sovereign State consisting of four countries: the Netherlands located largely in Western Europe with the special municipalities in theCaribbean located Saba, St. Eustatius and Bonaire, and Arubain the Caribbean countries, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. [5]  the areas are described as countries and are equal parts of the territory of the Kingdom. The political position of the countries, however, is different. The Caribbean Territories by the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, since 1954 the guiding document for the Kingdom, autonomous but also decide to roll over by the staff regulations, in so far as such matters appointed Kingdom affairshit the two areas. Is controlled by the setup of the Netherlands Kingdom as laid down by the Statute, and in the Constitution for the Kingdom of the Netherlands are regulated. The Constitution is older than the Statute and was until 1954 the guiding document of the Kingdom. Still, however, it is (according to article 5 of the Statute) the document that the institutions referred to in the Statute of the Kingdom thereunder and (largely) controls. Therefore, if only one of the four countries Netherlands acts inwards and outwards on in the capacity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This unique scheme makes that there are talks about a related to draw Federal . [6]  [7]  Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten common, each with its own Constitution. The center of gravity in the proportions is based of fact and legal in Netherlands. [8]  The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands of 28 October 1954 contains the highest Constitution of the Kingdom. [9]

From 1954 to 1975 also Suriname was an autonomous country within the Kingdom. The Netherlands Antilles were a sovereign country of 1954 until their abolition in 2010.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == When the end of 1813 Napoleon was defeated and there by the victors a political upgrading of Europe was accomplished, Netherlands, regained that was part of the French Empire, his freedom. After the proclamation of the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands on 20 november 1813 was the then Prince of Orange Willem Frederik of Orange-Nassau as Sovereign Prince in Amsterdam inaugurated and he accepted the sovereignty of this Principality of guaranteed by a Constitution. This was, however, initially only the so-called northern Netherlands: the association with the Southern Netherlands took place in 1814 in a réunion intime et complète. On March 16, 1815 the Prince took the title of King of the Netherlands . The Kingdom of the Netherlands was a fact. Previously, it was only a short time earlier a current Netherlands been monarchy: the Kingdom of Holland (or spelling according to the then Kingdom of Holland) on the eve of the annexation by France. The King of the Netherlands was also Grand Duke of Luxembourg, a province of the Kingdom who was a member of the German Confederation.
 * civics 2
 * 2.1 Matters
 * 2.2 Kingdom
 * 2.2.1 Crown of the Kingdom
 * Kingdom Government 2.2.2
 * 2.2.3 legislator of the Kingdom
 * 2.2.4 Council of State
 * 2.2.5 case law
 * 2.3 cooperation arrangement
 * 3 Countries
 * Netherlands 3.1
 * 3.2 Aruba
 * 3.3 Curaçao
 * 3.4 Sint Maarten
 * 4 Politics
 * 4.1 political renewal
 * 4.2 recognition of same-sex marriage
 * 4.3 accreditation schemes
 * 5 see also
 * 6 external links

In 1816 became, after negotiations between the Netherlands and Prussia, at Prussia belonging exclaves of the located in the Duchy of Cleves Liemers and the Dutch Over-Betuwe . The final negotiations over the borders between Prussia and Netherlands were conducted in 1817.

In 1830 Belgium separated itself by means of the Belgian revolution of the Kingdom. After the Kingdom had recognized the independence of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg a part of went further as independent State in personal Union with Netherlands (until 1890). The part of the province Limburg that retaining for the Kingdom got a similar status as Luxembourg had: provinces of Netherlands and German Confederation within the Duchy in personal Union with Netherlands. In addition, the cities of Maastricht and Venlo remained outside the German Confederation, although they were part of the Duchy. This happened to the German Confederation to compensate for those territories of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to Belgium were given a number of times. The Duchy of Limburg to this status came to an end in 1867 after the German Confederation was raised. Since then, an ordinary province of Limburg Netherlands, although the King continues to carry the title Duke of Limburg .

The Kingdom of the Netherlands possessed colonies in other parts of the world. These were Dutch East Indiescolony, Suriname, Curaçao and dependencies, and small areas in West Africa. After the Second World Warhit the decolonization process gained momentum. Under pressure from the United Nations and the United States had to allow Indonesia Netherlands was an independent State. Only Dutch New Guinea remained under Dutch control.

<p lang="en" len="328" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the Netherlands Antilles (the later name of Curaçao and dependencies) and Suriname, it turned out to be possible to use common consultation to arrive at a new construction of the Kingdom, in which independence and the equivalence of these overseas territories were insured against Netherlands.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1954 the colonial relationship between Netherlands, Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles and New Guinea ended by the emergence of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles were both country status and thus including autonomy in local government.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]

<p lang="en" len="627" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1962 came New Guinea under UN rule, to Indonesia in 1963 to come under the control of.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1975, Suriname from the Kingdom and became an independent Republic. Arubagot In 1986, until then part of the Netherlands Antilles, the status separate and thus became an independent country within the Kingdom. The Kingdom of the Netherlands existed between 1986 and 2010 from three countries: Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. On October 10, 2010, the Netherlands Antilles and Curaçao also went and Sint Maarten as autonomous countries within the Kingdom further. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the BES Islands, were given the status of Netherlands public body within the country. ==Public Authorities<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The State structure of the Kingdom<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Constitution for the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the State schemes of the countries are legally subordinate to the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Government of Netherlands is regulated in the Constitution for Netherlands, as well as the Constitution of Aruba (1985), the Constitution of the Netherlands Antilles (2010) and the Constitution of Sint Maarten (2010). In the Constitution for the Kingdom of the Netherlands also find the bodies of the Kingdom that are mentioned in the Statute for their settlement, with additions by the statute where the Kingdom affairs which Aruba, Curaçao and/or Sint Maarten hit. Statute and Constitution know in direction to the polity of the Kingdom as a whole. The Statute in Kingdom Affairs of the realm countries Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten, or directly affect the Constitution in all other situations, except the situations governed by the State settlements of Aruba, Curaçao and/or Sint Maarten.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The statute determines which bodies the Kingdom has. These include the Crown, called the Council of Ministers, the Council of State and the legislative power of the realm.Because these all their settlement largely in the Constitution and this Constitution, which also applies to the Administration about Netherlands settings it is not right to the Kingdom as a Confederation to qualify. The institutions of the Kingdom are (article 5 of the Statute) the same settings that the Constitution has, with overseas addition for the purposes of the Kingdom affairs that Aruba, Curaçao and/or Sint Maarten hit. In the case of Kingdom affairs that do not touch or Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Netherlands acts in the capacity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, according to the provisions of the Constitution, independent inwards and outwards on. the three other countries can't do that, not even when it comes to matters of the Kingdom who would not touch and Netherlands are ' bound ' to the procedures defined in the Statute (see explanatory memorandum of the Statute with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, submitted since april 1955).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">That is chosen for this model, is obvious, having regard to the large differences between Netherlands and the three other countries. The mere difference in population numbers and economic meaning makes that a Dutch ascendancy was deemed justifiable. The Statute is therefore not out of equality but of equivalence of the three countries.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_11-0" len="195" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A remarkable manifestation of this model is that a full member the Netherlands European Union (EU), while the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom only associated with the EU. It comes down to Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten are not EU territory forms, while EU citizens are the citizens.

<p lang="en" len="150" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Changes to the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands can only be carried out if all countries within the Kingdom to agree. ===Matters<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Without prejudice to elsewhere in the Statute is determined, are matters of the Kingdom: the maintenance of the independence and the defence of the Kingdom; the external relations; Netherlands nationality; the arrangement of the orders of chivalry and of the flag and the coat of arms of the Kingdom; the arrangement of the nationality of ships and laying down requirements relating to the navigation of sea-going vessels, which carry the flag of the Kingdom, with the exception of sailing ships; the monitoring of the General rules on admission and expulsion of Netherlands nationals and on the General conditions for admission and expulsion of aliens and the extradition. In addition, other topics in mutual agreement be explained to Affairs of the Kingdom.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Article 43 of the Statute further provides that the guarantee of basic human rights and freedoms, legal certainty and the soundness of governance matter for the Kingdom. Affairs of the Kingdom that Aruba, Curaçao and/or Sint Maarten not directly hit are regulated according to the provisions of the Constitution (and thus in fact by Netherlands). ===Kingdom<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Know the Statute formally a Crown of the Kingdom, a Kingdom Government, a legislator of the Kingdom and a Council of State (of the Kingdom). Who find their arrangement in the Constitution while the Statute contains additional provisions for these institutions. ====Crown of the Kingdom<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Crown of the Kingdom is carried by the hereditary King of the Netherlands. He is head of State of the Kingdom and the Government of the Kingdom and the individual countries. In Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten represents a Governor the King as head of State of the Kingdom in his exercise of the Government on the country concerned. ====Kingdom Government<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Government of the Kingdom (Kingdom Government) is co-legislator and in charge of the Board over the Kingdom. About the exact composition exist, in the absence of a clear provision in the Statute and statements about this in the official notes, in the literature disagree. Some writers argue that the Kingdom Government consists of the Dutch Government (King and ministers), supplemented by the ministers plenipotentiary ofAruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Or, in other words, the Kingdom Government consists of the King and the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom. This analogy with the situation in Netherlands, in which the Government consists of the King and the Council of Ministers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [12]  others believe that although the Plenipotentiary ministers are part of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom, but no (or only in improper sense) a member of the Government. Thus, Borman that the Kingdom Government consists of the King and the ministers of the Kingdom, i.e. the Netherlandsministers of the country. Although the ministers plenipotentiary of Aruba, Curaçaoand Sint Maarten are part of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom, they are not a Minister of the Kingdom and therefore not part of the Kingdom Government, says Borman. He bases this on the fact that the Plenipotentiaries not politically responsible vis-à-vis the States General, and ministeriëel not responsible for the actions of the King. This is evidenced by the fact that the Minister Plenipotentiary contrasigneert no legislation.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]  In practice, the difference in interpretation is not important, because over Government policy in the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom is discussed and decided. ====Legislator of the Kingdom<span class="mw-editsection" len="360" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The legislature of the Kingdom consists of the (Dutch) States-General and the Kingdom Government together. Art. 15, 16 and 17 the Charter give some participation to the estates of Aruba and Curaçao and Sint Maarten.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The lack of a full House for the whole realm is a large democratic deficitaccording to some politicians. In 1997 pleaded Ernst Hirsch Ballin in the Senate for the creation of a Koninkrijksparlement.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]  On november 11, 2009 brought the democratic Deficit Commission the report choose the Kingdom from, on the democratic legitimacy of decision-making and control realm level.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A law that is enacted by the legislature of the Kingdom is called law . An example of a Kingdom Act is the Dutch nationality law. The Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten is authorized to propose to the House of representatives to a rijkswets proposal. On the basis of a law can be a General measure of National governance be drawn up. ====Council of State<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Council of State of the Kingdom consists of the Dutch State Council expanded to include members appointed by the King on behalf of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten (at the request of the Government of the country concerned). For Aruba and Curaçao are currently respectively Hubert M Martin Ellis and a member of the Council of State of the Kingdom. For Sint Maarten will soon be the former Lieutenant Governor Dennis Richardson appointed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15] ====Case-Law<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Huguetan House at Lange Voorhout, the Hague, where the Supreme Court of the Netherlands is a Member<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the European part of Netherlands at first instance cases are treated at one of the nineteen courts. One can go on appeal against decisions of a court at one of the five higher courts or one of the administrative-professional bodies. Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the BES Islands have, respectively, the courts of first instance and the Joint Court of Justice.Statements of the Dutch courts and the Joint Court of Justice is, in principle, an appeal in cassation to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On the basis of the so-called correlation principle, laid down in article 39 of the Statute, including the civil law and criminal law in Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, as much as possible on corresponding arrangements. That makes it possible that decisions of the Supreme Council with regard to a case that plays in one country, often corresponding gelding in the other three countries of the Kingdom. ===Cooperation Arrangement<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Functions on the basis of article 38 of the staff regulations in the field of legislation and administration a cooperation arrangement between the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. The arrangement is by 1 January 1986 entered into force. In this context, a ' ' from both countries set up ministerial cooperation Council. The two countries also have a joint Court of Justice and since 1996 a Coast Guard of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. ==Countries<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Map showing the parts of the Kingdom on the same scale ===Netherlands<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Netherlands is a decentralized unitary State with the Government the King and the (Dutch) Council of ministers together. The people are represented by the States General, which consists of a Chamber of representatives and a Senate.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are three territorial levels of Government Netherlands: the Empire, the province and the municipality. The country is divided into 12 provinces: Drenthe, Flevoland, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen, Limburg,Noord-Brabant, Noord-Holland, Overijssel, Utrecht, Zeeland and Zuid-Holland. Each province has a Commissioner of the King<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16], a College of Gedeputeerde Staten and a people's representation in the form of theProvincial States. The provinces are in turn subdivided into municipalities, consisting of a Mayor, a college of Mayor and Aldermen and a City Council. The Caribbean Islands Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius Netherlandspublic bodies of forms. Each island has a Lieutenant Governor, an Executive Council and Island Council.

<p lang="en" len="496" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A separate, much older functional levels are the water boards, with a deep water or dig to the head.

<p lang="en" len="68" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Netherlands has full membership in the European Union. ===Aruba<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Aruba is a centralised unitary State with the King as Government (represented by the Governor) and the (Aruban) Council of ministers together. The people are represented by the estates of Aruba. Aruba has only one line of leadership: the country.

<p lang="en" len="83" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Aruba has within the European Union the status of overseas countries and territories (OCTs). ===Curaçao<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Curaçao is a centralised unitary State with the King as Government (represented by the Governor) and the Council of ministers (Curaçao) together. The people are represented by the States of Curaçao. Curaçao has only one line of leadership: the country.

<p lang="en" len="85" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Curaçao has within the European Union the status of overseas countries and territories (OCTs). ===Sint Maarten<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">St. Maarten is a centralised unitary State with the King as Government (represented by the Governor) and the Council of ministers (Sint Maarten) together. The people are represented by the States of Sint Maarten. Sint Maarten has only one line of leadership: the country.

<p lang="en" len="90" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sint Maarten has within the European Union the status of overseas countries and territories (OCTs). ==Politics<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Political renewal<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The last years showed that the current political situation in the Kingdom was not satisfactory. In 2010, therefore, is the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands review. On all islands in the Antilles are public consultations. St Maarten and Curaçao indicated a status aparte like Aruba to prefer. The people of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius voted for lifting of the Antilles and for direct ties with Netherlands. These changes came into force on October 10, 2010. ===Recognition of same-sex marriage<span class="mw-editsection" len="360" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Netherlands in 2001 was the first country in the world that it opened up marriage for same-sex partners . The civil code of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba recognize such a marriage is not that. Every registered in Netherlands Act, so also a marriage certificate, however, on the basis of the Statute is valid in the entire Kingdom. As a married couple in Netherlands in the Caribbean portion of the Kingdom establishes, therefore their marriage certificate must be registered there-regardless of the gender of the partners. ===Admission Arrangements<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and admission requirements to propose European Netherlands Dutch people who wish to establish themselves in the Sea States parts. However, no requirements to Netherlands Antilleans(including inhabitants of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten) that want to establish themselves in the European part of Netherlands, because that is not legally possible: they have the Dutch nationality, are EU citizens and therefore have free access to European Netherlands and all other Member States of the European Union. Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Caribbean Netherlands do not belong to the EU territory and do not need to enable EU citizens not the other way around.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The then Minister for immigration and asylum Rita Verdonk worked from early 2005 to a scheme to enable Antillean and Aruban problem youths back to us. This arrangement was strongly criticized by the Council of State. After the arrival of the fourth Balkenende Cabinet in 2007 (and hence the resignation of Verdonk) these plans were not developed further.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Pending the establishment of the Dutch Bill regulation of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten in Netherlands.