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Petition to reassure existing EU migrants of their status

Dear CADS, Our treasurer Peter Valentine has asked me to write to you. Both he and I have signed a petition on Change.org, requesting the UK government to reassure EU migrants living in the UK that they are welcome, and will continue to be welcome. Please help by...

So what happens next?

On Thursday, UK voters voted 52/48 to leave the European Union. The question that everyone has asked me since then is: “what happens next?” The short answer is that nobody knows. The process will go as follows: Sometime between now and the end of the year,...

Another wonderful CADS boat trip

The sun shone, we had a new route down the Amstel and around the larger canals; the food and wines were very good indeed, with fresh prawn salad made up on board, followed by grass-fed veal steaks grilled to order. The main subject of debate was inevitably the UK...
An Open Letter To British Voters From CADS

An Open Letter To British Voters From CADS

From: Mike Waters, Chairman, The Commercial Anglo-Dutch Society, Amsterdam Dear voter, We are a society of British, Commonwealth and Dutch business professionals working in The Netherlands. My members have asked me to write to you about the UK referendum on June 23rd....

Not a good advert for British government

So even the leader of the House of Commons believes that Jeremy Hunt is corrupt (sophisticated is a nice and careful way of saying that)! Also stupid, crass and rude, but we knew that already. The video is here.

Brexit. Have your voice heard!

Here’s your chance to participate in The Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce survey on the forthcoming UK referendum to stay or leave the European Union. The link to the survey is here, and your participation will be entirely confidential. We want to get a...

Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation

Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Brussels at the moment and my own are especially with Bart Feenstra, who was travelling on the train in front of the one that was blown up. He had just dropped his daughter off at school, and was on the way to work. He...