Gijsbert Marius "Gijs" deVries (born 22 February 1956) is a retired Dutch-American politician and diplomat who served as State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations from 1998 to 2002 and European Union Counter-terrorism…
De Vries wrote poetry and many novels, both in Dutch and Frisian. Among his most acclaimed novels are The Girl With the Red Hair (Het meisje met het rode haar) about Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft, and the trilogy Februari, also…
De Vries is one of the most common Dutch surnames. [1 ] It indicates a geographical origin: "Vriesland" is an old spelling of the Dutch province of Friesland (Frisia).
Jouke deVries (born 26 September 1960) is a Dutch political scientist, university administrator, and politician. He is chairman of the Executive Board of the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands. [1 ] Before that he was Dean of…
Under Black PETE’S SKIN Dark figures around the nineteenth-century Feast of Saint Nicholas The Dutch debate surrounding Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) has become deeply polarized. Proponents as well as opponents of the black assistant of Saint…