There is no contradiction between the King’s twin roles as the symbol of Dutch national identity and an advocate of European cooperation. The Dutch monarchy has come to symbolise the national State, but it sprang from – and is inextricably linked to – the history of Europe. And the Dutch monarchy demonstrates that national and European identities need not be mutually exclusive but can in fact reinforce each other.
Publicaciones
Breve introducción al proceso de formación del gobierno en los Países Bajos
Hay dos instituciones que desempeñan un papel importante en el proceso de formación del gobierno: la nueva Cámara de Representantes y el rey. De hecho, para ser más exactos debería decir desempeñaron, ya que en 2012 el procedimiento sufrió importantes modificaciones. Dichos cambios se tradujeron en que, al menos en términos formales, la iniciativa pasó de estar en manos del monarca a estar en las de la Cámara.
Bibliografía
Mobocracy and Monarchy: A Ritualistic Reconciliation with the Anachronism of the Dutch Monarchy
“Since the Second World War the Dutch royal family started actively positioning themselves as “open”, “modern” and “ordinary”, as being like their subjects”.
The Public Budget Cost of Some Monarchies and Republics in Western Europe
“The public budget systems of the eight West European monarchies and the two republics considered use a variety of systems for the civil lists and allocations granted to their heads of state. For this reason it is very difficult to compare the systems with one another”
Transforming the Dutch Republic into the Kingdom of Holland: the Netherlands between Republicanism and Monarchy (1795–1815)
“Later the Restoration monarchs, tried to reconcile popular sovereignty and monarchic authority by propagating the constitutional monarchy as the ideal juste milieu (middle way) between extremes”
Biografías
Beatrix: dwars door alle weerstanden heen
“Met bijna benauwende plichtsbetrachting, een bedachtzame echtgenoot en God als ‘schild ende betrouwen’ stuurde Beatrix het koningschap naar kalme wateren”
Willem-Alexander: van prins tot koning
“After four queens, the Netherlands’ new head of state is now a king. But who is he? How long did he struggle with his fate? Who are the people behind the scenes, the new ‘kingmakers’? How have they helped create the man who will have to live up to his mother’s high standards?”