Netherlands Antilles Dissolved!

Today the Netherlands Antilles ceased to exist. There are now four countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands: the Netherlands, Aruba, Sint Maarten and Curacao. The other islands: Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius have become part of the country of the Netherlands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. While the residents of all these places are considered Dutch citizens and thus EU citizens only those from the country of the Netherlands (in Europe proper) have full EU rights. The three islands that just joined the country of the Netherlands will retain their regular status within the EU at least until 2015. Those three islands will replace the Netherlands Antilles Guilder with the US Dollar in January 2011 (this last part isn't that big of a deal as the Dollar is already accepted almost everywhere.)

While these changes will not really affect all the tourists who visits these islands it will make the EU pay more attention to the Caribbean (despite the fact that France already has numerous islands that are part of the EU little attention is currently paid there.)

More info at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles