Benelux Parliament

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The Benelux Interparliamentary Assembly, commonly known as the Benelux Parliament, is one of the institutions of the Benelux Union. The assembly was established through an agreement signed by Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on 5 November 1955, which means it had already existed for three years when the Benelux Union was established on 3 February 1958. The Benelux Parliament provides the governments with advice on economic and transnational cooperation. Its recommendations may also concern other matters if common interests or current events so dictate. The parliament also keeps the three governments informed about the opinions that move in the parliamentary assemblies from which its members originate. In its session on 12 and 13 June 2009, the Benelux Parliament unanimously adopted a recommendation to modernise its way of working and to review the agreement signed between the three Benelux states. After some years of discussions about the extension of the competences of the Benelux...

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