How Powerful Are The Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg?
How Powerful Are The Nordic Countries? http://testu.be/1BZGmVD Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Before the EU, there was BeNeLux. Standing for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg,...
========== Since 1957, the union of Belgium, the Netherlands,
and Luxembourg has served as an experimenton European cooperation. And by many accounts,
it’s been a successful one - it even servedas a model for the original European Union.
Though many would question the strength ofthe EU alliance, few would say the same of
the Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg partnership,or BeNeLux for short. So, how powerful is
BeNeLux?Well, the three Midwestern European countries
are fairly powerful in their own right. Eventiny Luxembourg, who loves to shell out much
of its cash in generous donations ranks inthe top 3 for its GDP. Combined, BeNeLux’s
population is made up of 28.5 million residents.That’s a little more than the population
of Texas, crammed into about a tenth of thespace. This gives th...