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Academic Senate
An academic senate is a governing body in some universities and colleges, and is typically the supreme academic authority for the institution.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.
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Amitai Etzioni
Amitai Etzioni (born Werner Falk, 4 January 1929) is an Israeli-American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism.
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Amstelveen
Amstelveen is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands with a population of 89,918 (2017).
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André Rouvoet
André Rouvoet (born 4 January 1962) is a former Dutch politician of the ChristianUnion (CU).
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Assassination of Pim Fortuyn
Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician, was assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf in Hilversum, North Holland on 6 May 2002, nine days before the Dutch general election of 2002.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar and former politician.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.
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Bachelor of Laws
The Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B. or B.L.) is an undergraduate degree in law (or a first professional degree in law, depending on jurisdiction) originating in England and offered in Japan and most common law jurisdictionsexcept the United States and Canadaas the degree which allows a person to become a lawyer.
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Beatrix of the Netherlands
Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard,; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal family who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication on 30 April 2013.
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Ben Bot
Bernard Rudolf "Ben" Bot (born 21 November 1937) is a Dutch diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
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Biezelinge
Biezelinge is a village in the Dutch municipality of Kapelle (province of Zeeland).
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Budapest
Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.
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Capelle aan den IJssel
Capelle aan den IJssel is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.
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Catshuis
The Catshuis (English: House of Cats), initially known as Huis Sorgvliet (English: Sorgvliet House), is the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
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Cees Veerman
Cornelis Pieter (Cees) Veerman (born 8 March 1949) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal.
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Cereal
A cereal is any edible components of the grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) of cultivated grass, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.
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Christian Democratic Appeal
The Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl,; CDA) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands.
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Christian Union (Netherlands)
The Christian Union (ChristenUnie, CU) is a Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands.
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Coalition
The term "coalition" is the denotation for a group formed when two or more persons, faction, states, political parties, militaries etc.
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Commander
Commander is a common naval and air force officer rank.
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Communitarianism
Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community.
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Debridement
Debridement is the medical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.
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Democrats 66
Democrats 66 (Democraten 66, D66,; officially Politieke Partij Democraten 66) is a social-liberal political party in the Netherlands.
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.
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Dutch general election, 1998
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 6 May 1998.
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Dutch general election, 2002
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 15 May 2002.
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Dutch general election, 2003
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 22 January 2003.
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Dutch general election, 2006
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 22 November 2006 following the fall of the Second Balkenende cabinet.
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Dutch general election, 2010
General elections were held in the Netherlands on Wednesday, 9 June 2010.
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Dutch municipal elections, 2006
The Dutch municipal elections of 2006 were held on March 7, 2006.
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Eduard Bomhoff
Eduard Jan Bomhoff (born 30 September 1944) is a Dutch economist and academic.
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Elsevier (magazine)
Elsevier Weekblad is a Dutch weekly news magazine.
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Eponym
An eponym is a person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named.
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as EUR, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) is a public university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young (doing business as EY) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, England.
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU).
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Femke Halsema
Femke Halsema (born 25 April 1966) is a Dutch politician and filmmaker.
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First Balkenende cabinet
The First Balkenende cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 22 July 2002 until 27 May 2003.
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First Rutte cabinet
The First Rutte cabinet, also called the Rutte–Verhagen cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 14 October 2010 until 5 November 2012.
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Flanders
Flanders (Vlaanderen, Flandre, Flandern) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, although there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history.
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Formateur
A formateur (French for someone who forms, who constitutes) is a politician who is appointed to lead the formation of a coalition government, after either a general election or the collapse of a previous government.
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Fourth Balkenende cabinet
The Fourth Balkenende cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 22 February 2007 until 14 October 2010.
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Gerrit Zalm
Gerrit Zalm (born 6 May 1952) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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Goes
Goes is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, in the province of Zeeland.
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Grand Cross
Grand Cross is the highest class in many orders, and manifested in its insignia.
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GroenLinks
GroenLinks (GreenLeft, GrienLinks, GL) is a green political party in the Netherlands.
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Hans Wiegel
Hans Wiegel (born 16 July 1941) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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Hempstead, New York
Hempstead is one of the three towns in Nassau County, New York, United States, occupying the southwestern part of the county, in the western half of Long Island.
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Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian university in Hempstead, New York.
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Holland, Michigan
Holland is a city in the western region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Hope College
Hope College is a private, Christian liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan.
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House of Representatives (Netherlands)
The House of Representatives (pronounced; commonly referred to as the, literally Second Chamber) is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate.
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Hungary
Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.
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International Security Assistance Force
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan, established by the United Nations Security Council in December 2001 by Resolution 1386, as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement.
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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer (born 3 April 1948) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
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Johan Remkes
Johannes Wijnandus "Johan" Remkes (born 15 June 1951) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) serving as the King's Commissioner of North Holland since 1 July 2010.
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Jurist
A jurist (from medieval Latin) is someone who researches and studies jurisprudence (theory of law).
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Kapelle
Kapelle is a municipality and a town in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland.
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Karel De Gucht
Karel Lodewijk Georgette Emmerence De Gucht (born 27 January 1954) is a Belgian politician who was the European Commissioner for Trade from February 2010 until 31 October 2014.
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Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (Hungarian: Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem) is a Christian university in Budapest, Hungary.
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Keio University
, abbreviated as or, is a private university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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Keti Koti
Keti Koti (Sranantongo: "the chain is cut" or "the chain is broken") is an annual celebration on July 1 that marks Emancipation Day in Suriname.
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Labour Party (Netherlands)
The Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid,, abbreviated as PvdA, or P van de A) is a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands.
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Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (born 18 March 1937) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Democrats 66 (D66) party.
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Law of the Netherlands
The Netherlands uses civil law.
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Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal
The Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal is the most senior politician within the Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl, CDA) in the Netherlands.
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Lijsttrekker
Lijsttrekker (English: "list puller") is a Dutch term used in the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname for the top candidate of a party on a party list.
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List of Foreign Ministers of Belgium
The following is a list of those who have served as foreign ministers of Belgium.
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List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken) is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands.
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Management consulting
Management consulting is the practice of helping organizations to improve their performance, operating primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and the development of plans for improvement.
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Manneken Pis
Manneken Pis (meaning "Lil' Piddler" in Dutch) is a landmark small bronze sculpture (61 cm) in Brussels, depicting a naked little boy urinating into a fountain's basin.
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Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte (born 14 February 1967) is a Dutch politician serving as the 50th and current Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010 and Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie – VVD) since 2006.
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Marnix van Rij
Marnix Leonard Alexander van Rij (born 25 October 1960) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.
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Master of Laws
The Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin Magister Legum or Legum Magister) is a postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in a related subject.
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Maxime Verhagen
Maxime Jacques Marcel Verhagen (born 14 September 1956) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
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Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.
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Ministry of General Affairs
The Ministry of General Affairs (Ministerie van Algemene Zaken; AZ) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for Government policy, Planning, Information and the Dutch royal house.
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Ministry of Justice and Security
The Ministry of Justice and Security (Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid; JenV) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for justice, imprisonment and public security.
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Necrotizing fasciitis
Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), commonly known as flesh-eating disease, is an infection that results in the death of the body's soft tissue.
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Nederlands Dagblad
Nederlands Dagblad (Dutch Daily) is a Dutch daily newspaper, available nationwide, with a daily circulation of 20,735 issues in 2016.
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Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (abbr. NOS), English: Dutch Broadcast Foundation, is one of the broadcasting organizations making up the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen,; Papiamentu: Antia Hulandes) was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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NRC Next
nrc•next is a Dutch daily newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media.
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Opzij
Opzij is a mainstream Dutch feminist monthly magazine.
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Order of Bernardo O'Higgins
The Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (Spanish: Orden de Bernardo O'Higgins) is an award issued by Chile.
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Order of Independence (Jordan)
The Order of Independence (Wisam al-Istiqial) is the fourth knighthood order of the Kingdom of Jordan.
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Order of Leopold (Belgium)
The Order of Leopold (Leopoldsorde, Ordre de Léopold) is one of the three current Belgian national honorary orders of knighthood.
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Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the only federal decoration of Germany.
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Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
The Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (French: Ordre de Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) is a distinguished honorary order of Luxembourg.
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Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
The Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Order Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Polish order of merit created in 1974, awarded to persons who have rendered great service to Poland.
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Order of Orange-Nassau
The Order of Orange-Nassau (Orde van Oranje-Nassau) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the Queen regent Emma, acting on behalf of her under-age daughter Queen Wilhelmina.
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Order of the Polar Star
The Order of the Polar Star (Swedish: Nordstjärneorden) is a Swedish order of chivalry created by King Frederick I on 23 February 1748, together with the Order of the Sword and the Order of the Seraphim.
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Order of the Southern Cross
The National Order of the Southern Cross (Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul) is a Brazilian order of chivalry founded by Emperor Pedro I on 1 December 1822.
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Order of the Star of Ghana
The Order of the Star of Ghana is the highest award given by the Government of Ghana to any individual who had helped the cause of the country in one way or the other.
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Parliamentary leader
A parliamentary leader is a political title or a descriptive term used in various countries to the person leading a caucus (or parliamentary group) in a legislative body, whether it be a national or sub-national legislature.
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People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie, VVD) is a conservative-liberal political party in the Netherlands.
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Petite bourgeoisie
Petite bourgeoisie, also petty bourgeoisie (literally small bourgeoisie), is a French term (sometimes derogatory) referring to a social class comprising semi-autonomous peasantry and small-scale merchants whose politico-economic ideological stance in times of socioeconomic stability is determined by reflecting that of a haute ("high") bourgeoisie, with which the petite bourgeoisie seeks to identify itself and whose bourgeois morality it strives to imitate.
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Pieter van Geel
Petrus Leonardus Bastiaan Antonius (Pieter) van Geel (born 8 April 1951 in Valkenswaard, North Brabant) is a Dutch politician for the CDA.
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Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.
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Pim Fortuyn List
The Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn, LPF) was a right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands.
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Politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.
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Prime Minister of the Netherlands
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands in his quality of chair of the Council of Ministers.
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Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.
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Progressivism
Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.
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Protestant Church in the Netherlands
The Protestant Church in the Netherlands (Protestantse Kerk in Nederland, abbreviated PKN) is the largest Protestant denomination in the Netherlands, being both Reformed (Calvinist) and Lutheran.
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Provinces of the Netherlands
There are currently twelve provinces of the Netherlands, representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local municipalities, with responsibility for matters of subnational or regional importance.
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PSV Eindhoven
The Philips Sport Vereniging (Philips Sports Union), abbreviated as PSV and internationally known as PSV Eindhoven is a sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW; Radio Nederland Wereldomroep) was a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands.
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Reformed Churches in the Netherlands
The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, abbreviated Gereformeerde kerk) was the second largest Protestant church in the Netherlands and one of the two major Reformed denominations along with the Dutch Reformed Church since 1892 until being merged into the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in 2004.
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Research
Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.
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Rita Verdonk
Maria Cornelia Frederika "Rita" Verdonk (born 18 October 1955) is a retired Dutch politician.
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Roelf de Boer
Roelf Hendrik de Boer (born 9 October 1949, Rotterdam) is a Dutch politician.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.
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Rump cabinet
A rump cabinet is a cabinet from which one or more coalition partners have withdrawn and which has minority support in parliament.
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Second Balkenende cabinet
The Second Balkenende cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 27 May 2003 until 7 July 2006.
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Seoul
Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.
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Sexism
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.
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Suriname
Suriname (also spelled Surinam), officially known as the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a sovereign state on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.
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Third Balkenende cabinet
The Third Balkenende cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 7 July 2006 until 22 February 2007.
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Thom de Graaf
Thomas Carolus (Thom) de Graaf (born 11 June 1957) is a Dutch jurist and politician.
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Tokyo
, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.
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VU University Amsterdam
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as VU, VU University Amsterdam, "Free University Amsterdam") is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880.
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Wim Kok
Willem "Wim" Kok (born 29 September 1938) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.
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Wouter Bos
Wouter Jacob Bos ((born 14 July 1963) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). He served as a Member of the House of Representatives from 19 May 1998 until 24 March 2000, when he became State Secretary for Finance in the Cabinet Kok II following the resignation of Willem Vermeend who became Minister of Social Affairs and Employment. He returned to the House of Representatives on 23 May 2002, following the Dutch general election of 2002. The Labour Party suffered a landslide defeat in the election losing 23 seats, then Party leader Ad Melkert was blamed for the defeat and resigned. Bos announced his candidacy for the Labour Party leadership election and won by a landslide with 60% of the votes. Bos became the Labour Party party leader on 19 November 2002 and the Parliamentary leader of Labour Party in the House of Representatives on 19 November 2002 and became the lijsttrekker for the Dutch general election of 2003. The Labour Party was the largest winner of the election, gaining 19 seats (from 23 to 42) and became the second largest party in the House of Representatives. After a failed cabinet formation a new cabinet was formed without the Labour Party. Bos served as opposition leader during the parliamentary period of the Cabinets Balkenende II and III. For the Dutch general election of 2006 Bos again as lijsttrekker lost 9 seats but the Labour Party remained the second largest party with 33 seats. The following cabinet formation resulted in a coalition agreement which formed the Cabinet Balkenende IV, comprising the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), Labour Party (PvdA) and the ChristianUnion (CU). Bos became Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, the cabinet took office on 22 February 2007. The cabinet fell on 20 February 2010 as the result of disagreement between CDA and Labour Party over the extension of ISAF mission in Afghanistan. Bos resigned his position as Party leader to spend more time with his family and retired from active politics. Since his retirement from politics, Bos became a partner at the professional services firm KPMG and is also a consultant for the financial sector. On 21 June 2013 Bos was appointed as chairman of the board of directors of VU University Medical Center.
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Yonsei University
Yonsei University is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea.
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Zeeland
Zeeland (Zeelandic: Zeêland, historical English exonym Zealand) is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands.
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2006–07 Dutch cabinet formation
Following the 2006 Dutch general election, held on November 22, a process of cabinet formation started, involving negotiations about which coalition partners to form a common programme of policy and to divide the posts in cabinet.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Peter_Balkenende
