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By Michael Mainelli England may have beaten the Netherlands in the Euros, but our two nations will always be close friends off the pitch, says Michael Mainelli As England and the Netherlands went toe-to-toe, or, more accurately, boot-to-boot, in Dortmund last Wednesday evening, I had just returned from a far more congenial four-day trip to Amsterdam and The Hague where I was very warmly welcomed while representing the City. Lord Mayors typically spend over 100 days of their one-year term on 25 or so overseas visits covering all four corners of the globe. With the UK enjoying closer relations w…

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