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The city of Amsterdam is a municipality under the Dutch Municipalities Act. It is governed by a municipal council ( gemeenteraad , also known as 'city council', the principal legislative authority), a municipal executive board ( college van burgemeester en wethouders ), and a mayor ( burgemeester ).
The Ministry of Finance (Dutch: Ministerie van Financiën; FIN) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for economic policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, tax policy, incomes policy, financial regulation, the government budget and the financial market. The Ministry was created in 1798 as the Department of Finance of the Batavian Republic.
Amsterdam was the leading centre for finance ... the Amsterdam city centre has attracted large numbers of tourists: between 2012 and 2015, the annual number of ...
With the advent of Euronext stock exchange which is not only located in Amsterdam, but also in Paris, Brussels, London and Lisbon, the AFM works closely with the regulators in those other countries to regulate this cross border stock exchange. [citation needed] The AFM is a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). [4]
From the end of the 16th century, the city grew rapidly to become the largest and most powerful city in the Netherlands and the main centre of trade, commerce, finance and culture. The origins of the split between Amsterdam as capital city and The Hague as seat of government lay in the peculiar Dutch constitutional history.
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To fully understand the peculiarities of the history of the system of public finance, and that of the closely related system of private (international) finance and banking of the Dutch Republic, one has to view it in the context of the general history of the Netherlands and of its institutions, and of the general Economic History of the Netherlands (1500–1815).
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