He says Constanta is the gateway at the end of a giant "blue motorway" stretching more than 1, 500 miles from the North Sea port of Rotterdam via waterways in Holland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Serbia.

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The referee had no other choice but to award a penalty and show a red card to Holland in the 73rd minute of a pulsating north-east derby.

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But Roy Holland from the campaign group Stop Turbines in North Cornwall said those who chose to switch Good Energy would not get back any more than they put in because taxpayers were footing the bill for the subsidies renewable energy companies received from the government.

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Medieval Italian merchants developed commercial and financial techniques, such as bookkeeping and bills of exchange, that spread north and west to Europe's emerging maritime and Protestant powers, notably Holland and England.

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Speaking in near-perfect English, Louis explains how his mother, blacksmith's daughter Maria Christine Van Meir, was in her 20s and working in the family cafe in Berendrecht, north of Antwerp, when she helped the young Belgian, Paul Bouvet, in his attempt to get to Holland.

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