heeft iemand al een stembiljet? Dutch overseas territories[edit] Besides the European Netherlands, the Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of the three countries (Dutch: landen) of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, which have considerable autonomy, as well as the Caribbean Netherlands islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, which are special municipalities of the Netherlands proper. All six islands are overseas territories with respect to the European Union, listed as OCTs in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The Caribbean Netherlands will remain OCTs at least until 2015, after which a different status may be proposed.[19] The islands inherited this status from the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba in 1986 with its secession from the Netherlands Antilles, and Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Caribbean Netherlands in 2010 with the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.) The Netherlands Antilles were initially specifically excluded from all association with the EEC by reason of a protocol attached to the Treaty of Rome, allowing the Netherlands to ratify on behalf of the Netherlands (the European territory) and Netherlands New Guinea only, which it subsequently did.[20] Following the entry into force of the Convention on the association of the Netherlands Antilles with the European Economic Community on 1 October 1964, however, the Netherlands Antilles were counted as overseas territories. The inhabitants of the islands are EU citizens owing to their Dutch citizenship, but most of them were not, until recently, entitled to vote in European Parliamentary Elections. Non-voting rights were ruled to be contrary to EU law by the European Court of Justice as Dutch citizens resident outside the EU, other than those resident in either the former Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, were entitled to vote in the Dutch elections to the European Parliament.[21]
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