Jan Peter Balkenende
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Jan Pieter "Jan Peter" Balkenende Jr. is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 July 2002 to 14 October 2010.
Balkenende in 2006
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi in Moscow on 31 May 2003.
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski in Warsaw on 27 October 2003.
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende with President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana at the EU–Russia Summit in The Hague, 25 November 2004.
Politics of the Netherlands
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The politics of the Netherlands take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy. A constitutional monarchy, the country is organised as a decentralised unitary state. The Netherlands can be described as a consociational state. Dutch politics and governance are characterised by a common striving for broad consensus on important issues, within both of the political community and society as a whole.
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Jan Heemskerk (1874–1877; 1883–1888)
Abraham Kuyper (1901–1905)
Pieter Cort van der Linden (1913–1918)