High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are important partners both politically and economically. In February 1999, Tony Blair and Wim Kok agreed to intensify relations between the two countries. The United Kingdom and the Netherlands work closely with EU and foreign policy, social and employment policies and armed forces. At least forty Dutch towns and cities are twinned with British towns and cities. The English language and the Dutch language are both West Germanic languages, with Frisian, a minority language in the Netherlands being the closest relative of the English Language outside the British Isles. 87% of people in the Netherlands claim to speak English. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких...