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For eleven days the city of Cannes comes alive under the spell of film. Highlights are the many different events, with the hopes people have in seeing their favored movie star. Some wait for those arriving by boat.
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The 66th Cannes Film Festival has begun, an event that continues for 11 days with film premieres, celebrities, Golden Palms and many films screening at the Palace of Festivals in Cannes.
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On the 5th of May The Netherlands celebrates its liberation day with festivals all over the country. The Hague celebrates its festival at the Malieveld with all kinds of activities with music, shows and organizations which promote freedom.
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On May the 4th, The National Memorial in Netherlands takes place. At 20.00 two minutes silence is observed across the country for the Dutch war victims. Those who lost their life and were murdered during the Second World War are commemorated.
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A hundred May Day demonstrators gathering at Malieveld in The Hague to start a march from Malieveld to the Dutch parliament building to demand a citizen initiative, for a basic income for all citizens in Europe unconditionally.
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Thousands of people traveled from across the Netherlands to celebrate Queen's Day and the Inauguration of Willem Alexander as New King of the Netherlands.
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Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands. At 14:21 pm he took an oath of allegiance in front of parliament and swear to the peoples of the Kingdom and the Charter from the Kingdom and that he maintain and uphold the Constitution.
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A Press Briefing is held for the International Press at the Press Centre at the Berlage Building in Amsterdam by Dutch Prime Minister and Mayor of Amsterdam about the programme on the upcoming coronation of Prince Willem Alexander to King.
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