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Dutch Senate and House of Representatives celebrate 200 years of the States General
This year, the Dutch Senate and the House of Representatives has existed for 200 years.
On Friday 16th October a special joint meeting took place in the Hall of Knights. On that day it has been exactly 200 years since both chambers held a joint meeting in The Hague for the first time. The theme of the meeting was the significance of both chambers for the Dutch democracy and society and the challenges for the future. Both the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives as well as the Prime Minister addressed the joint meeting.
For this festive moment, the States General had invited representatives from parliamentary bodies of the Benelux countries. For Luxembourg attended Ms. Viviane Ecker, President of the Luxembourg Council of State, Mr. Marc Angel as representative of the Luxembourg Parliament as well as Ambassador Pierre-Louis Lorenz as representative of the Luxembourg government.
