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		hguant on July 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Support for team members who are mistreated in the... My understanding is that this goes back to Rotterdam being a free or open port, since the late Renaissance period. The Netherlands has been a proponent of free trade and what we'd call international citizenship for a very long time

xxpor on July 20, 2021 [–]

And, you know, the Dutch East India Company being the largest multinational in world history.

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