(Washington, D.C.) — On the eve of the working go to by His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima to the United States, new figures reveal the financial relationship between the Netherlands and the United States is stronger than ever.
While within the US, the royal couple will go to San Francisco and Silicon Valley on September 6 and seven. During the go to, the King and Queen will meet with elected officers together with Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor London Breed, in addition to with enterprise and neighborhood leaders and teachers. Their go to focuses on discovering good options for international challenges equivalent to local weather change, mobility, well being care and agriculture.
The King and Queen’s go to to California underscores the Dutch perception that transatlantic cooperation is crucial for safeguarding the safety and prosperity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The United States is the Netherlands’ most necessary companion inside NATO and can also be a significant companion when it comes to international challenges like local weather change, power transition, mobility, urbanization, and healthcare. California and the Netherlands take a number one function in lots of of those points. For instance, the Netherlands and California have been working collectively for years to tackle local weather change, and this go to will broaden their cooperation past local weather change to embody round economic system points.
While the King and Queen are in California, a commerce mission of greater than 100 Dutch corporations from the fields of life sciences and well being, city mobility, and biking might be on a parallel go to to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Economic Ties
The Netherlands and the United States get pleasure from a long-standing and strong partnership that creates jobs, sound investments, and alternatives for each nations. When analyzing US buying and selling companions on a world scale, the Netherlands is the buying and selling companion with which the United States has the biggest buying and selling surplus.
In 2021, Dutch-US financial ties supported an estimated 955,000 American jobs, and an estimated 77,000 of these jobs had been based mostly in California.
Each of those figures is an 11% enhance from 2020. California is second on the record of the highest 10 US states that export essentially the most items and companies to the Netherlands. Many corporations from California have their European HQ within the Netherlands. The Golden State can also be the fifth largest economic system on the earth and a lovely companion for deeper financial cooperation with the Netherlands.
“The Netherlands and California have been working together for many years in areas such as technology, climate change, and innovation. And cities in the Netherlands and California are at the forefront of the transition to create healthier urban living,” acknowledged Dutch Ambassador André Haspels. “This visit by His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima highlights this cooperation and charts the way for future opportunities in technology, higher education, and healthcare.”
The Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Liesje Schreinemacher will accompany the King and Queen on the go to. Several members of the Dutch authorities, together with the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Ernst Kuipers; Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf; Aruban Minister of Economic Affairs, Communication, and Sustainable Development Geoffrey Wever; Curacaon Minister for Economic Development Ruisandro Cijntje; and Dutch Minister for the Environment Vivianne Heijnen will even take part within the go to.
Media alternatives
We invite media to register to cowl the next occasions:
September 6:
- Castro District: The Netherlands was the primary nation to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001 and is along with California on the forefront of selling LGBTI+ rights worldwide. The royal couple will stroll by means of the Castro District with supervisor Rafael Mandelman, and converse with neighborhood leaders who advocate for equal rights for LGBTI+ individuals. The King and Queen will make stops on the GLBT Historical Society Museum, the Castro Theatre, and the Twin Peaks Tavern to be taught extra in regards to the historical past of the LGBTI+ neighborhood in San Francisco and alternate experiences on supporting LGBTI+ rights on an area and worldwide stage. Media ought to contact Sietze Vermeulen to register to cowl this occasion by September 5.
- Cable Car Photo op: The King and Queen will take a experience on an iconic San Francisco Cable Car. Media ought to contact Sietze Vermeulen to register to cowl the picture op by September 5.
- Urban Challenges Seminar: California and the Netherlands share the identical ambition to create extra wholesome, accessible, resilient, and inclusive cities. The King and Queen will be part of Mayor Breed for the opening of the Urban Challenges Seminar. This seminar (which is a part of the parallel commerce mission) will deliver collectively California and Dutch representatives from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rotterdam and Utrecht to focus on shared urbanization challenges within the areas of well being, mobility and sustainability and options that may contribute to more healthy city dwelling. Media ought to contact Ron Linker to register to cowl this occasion by September 5.
September 7
- Golden Gate Bridge Photo op: The King and Queen will go to the Golden Gate Bridge. Media ought to contact Sietze Vermeulen to register to cowl this picture op by September 6. urther logistical particulars for these occasions might be offered upon media registration.
- San Francisco Bay Area: The King and Queen will even meet Governor Newsom for a signing ceremony on local weather motion and round economic system between the Netherlands and California. After they may be part of classes on financial ties and agtech collaboration.
The royal couple will even attend a seminar on digital well being on the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. The King and Queen will go to Google’s headquarters to focus on the corporate’s ambitions in local weather change, in addition to the corporate’s function within the Netherlands. Other highlights of the royal go to will embody conferences on startups and synthetic intelligence at Stanford University; and a go to to HackerOne, a Dutch tech agency with headquarters in San Francisco.
While on the University of California in Berkeley, Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf will launch the Dutch Network for Academics within the US (DNA-US). This initiative will promote data sharing between Dutch researchers within the United States.
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