Frisia! It's a province of the Netherlands and I think their language is the closest one to English

Netherlands, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Estonia got added really late

Funny how Norway is there even though it's not even in the EU

ï, ö, ü, ä as well (as a diaeresis, not an umlaut)

At least here in the Netherlands, there was a lot of commotion because a data centre tried to buy a windmill park meant to power households as their dedicated power source

Maybe they're Dutch, there it's only done for words that end in a vowel. Probably not though.

In Dutch we only talk about turning screws clockwise and counterclockwise

I don't know about Germany, but in the Netherlands people also kept giving that "no farmers no food" argument even though we produce much more than we actually eat. Most of our food is for export.

Also a thing in the Netherlands!

He has a bunch of English ones on his website as well. Some of them are just the dumbest, least translatable puns though (in a good way).

For this one the joke even only works in Flemish (not Dutch).

Sometimes you just have to feed the canal, you know?

Unrelated, but it's kind of weird that !politics@lemmy.world is US politics even though there's nothing American about lemmy.world