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	Second cabinet of Wim Kok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second cabinet of the Netherlands to be headed by Prime Minister Wim Kok.
		The new cabinet was the successor of the first cabinet of Wim Kok and was formed from the same coalition of PvdA, VVD and D66.
		The aim of the cabinet was to continue the policy of cabinet Kok I, which was concerned with economizing, tax reduction and making an end to unemployment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Wim_Kok (272 words)

	Wim Kok
		Willem (Wim) Kok (born September 29, 1938) was a Dutch politician and the Prime Minister of The Netherlands from 1994 - 2002, heading the cabinets Kok I[?] and Kok II.
		Born in Bergambacht, The Netherlands, Wim Kok started his career in 1961 at the socialist trade union of the Netherlands.
		His cabinet fell just weeks before the May 2002 elections when Kok and all his ministers stepped down because of the discussion about the possible Dutch responsiblity in the Srebrenica drama.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Wim_Kok.html (174 words)

	MinAZ \| Prime Ministers since 1945 \| Kok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Willem (Wim) Kok was born in Bergambacht on 29 September 1938.
		In 1969, Wim Kok was appointed secretary to the Netherlands Federation of Trade Unions (NVV), and deputy chairman in 1972.
		Wim Kok has been deputy chairman of the Socioeconomic Council (SER), chairman of the employees representatives in the Labour Foundation, vice-chairman of the Board of De Nederlandsche Bank, visiting lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies and advisor to the European Commission.
	www.minaz.nl /english/prime_minister/pm-1945/html/mps_1945/kok.html (297 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Wim Kok - profile
		Mr Kok's "purple coalition" government - spanning the political spectrum between the Liberals on the right and the Labour party on the left - has been the first of its kind in the Netherlands.
		Mr Kok, who is married to Rita and has a daughter and two sons, is a football fan who admits to a "slight preference" for Ajax Amsterdam over Rotterdam's Feijenoord.
		Mr Kok has earned more international respect for his handling of the Dutch EU presidency which set the seal on European economic and monetary union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in June last year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/88834.stm (379 words)

	Guardian \| Goodbye, third way
		The resignation a few days ago of the centre-left Dutch premier Wim Kok hardly caused a ripple - he is not actually stepping down until the elections next May and (a lesson for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown?) has micromanaged the succession to a job he has held for 15 years.
		Because Mr Kok's personal popularity is said to be worth up to 10 seats in the Dutch lower house of parliament, where the VVD is already strong, it does, however, look like the centre-right will take the lead.
		Wim Kok's departure marks the end of that brief dream of social democratic hegemony when, in the late 90s, the capitals of Europe and the White House were ruled by politicians of mildly progressivist mien.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4249438-106710,00.html (998 words)

	Wim Kok - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
		In 1961, Wim Kok was appointed assistant international officer of the Netherlands Federation of Trade Unions and he was appointed staff member for economic affairs of the same union in 1965 and union secretary in 1967.
		Wim Kok has been deputy chairman of the Socioeconomic Council (SER), chairman of the employees representatives in the Labour Foundation, vice-chairman of the Board of De Nederlandsche Bank.
		At present, Wim Kok is chairman of the European Employment Taskforce, established by the European Council in March 2003 and on April 11th 2003 Wim Kok was appointed Dutch Minister of State.
	www.leadingauthorities.com /23717/Wim_Kok.htm (427 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clinton, Blair, and Holland's Wim Kok attempted to devise a center-left economic strategy appropriate to a new post-industrial capitalism that depended on a market-driven process of creative destruction -- on the prevalence of spin-offs, start-ups, and temporary and part-time workers, and on both low-wage and high-wage service industries.
		Kok's administration ignored urban crime, much of it committed by immigrants, leaving an opening for Fortuyn who ran as a kind of gay Giuliani against the Dutch equivalent of liberal David Dinkins.
		Kok's party also passed laws legalizing gay marriage and euthanasia, which contributed to the landslide vote in the Dutch countryside that came from socially conservative (by Dutch standards) Christian Democrats.
	www.prospect.org /print-friendly/print/V13/12/judis-j.html (1657 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dutch leader: Leftist governments out of favor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Prime Minister Wim Kok said his Labor Party's massive election loss showed the extent to which socialist-oriented governments are on the ropes in Europe.
		Kok's legacy includes his government's resignation in April, after an independent report that criticized Dutch peacekeepers for failing to prevent the massacre of 7,500 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica by Serb forces.
		In what amounted to a political farewell, Kok said the election campaign had been a shock because of the assassination of Pim Fortuyn and subsequent allegations that somehow officials in his Labor Party were responsible for the death of the populist candidate.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/05/16/netherlands-kok.htm (429 words)

	Telekom Austria - Lisbon Goals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In his speech, Wim Kok emphasized the urgency of reform measures to increase competitiveness of the European economy.
		Kok stated that only through growth could Europe sustainably assure its welfare models: "The challenges of global competition from the USA and Asia and an ageing society must be faced.
		In his speech Kok remarked that the "brain drain" to the USA had to be countered through higher state and private investments in RandD.
	www.telekom.at /Content.Node/verantwortung/stakeholder/lisbon_goals.php (360 words)

	Day 2 Report
		Wim Kok, who was the Dutch Prime minister at that moment.
		Wim Kok is warmly applauded by the congress.
		Kok thanks Kurtz for his kind words and takes the opportunity to congratulate the IHEU on its 50th anniversary.
	www.iheu.org /node/189/print (3453 words)

	Politiek-actie.net \| A strong and social Europe: the impossible mission of Wim Kok
		Kok has to operate in a force field where lobby organisations, social movements, trade unions and politicians fall over each other.
		Koks assignment is part of a plan that develops a union broad, integrated social policy, something the current members feel aversion to.
		When Wim Kok on November 1st reports to the European Commission we will not only know what sacrifices we have to take in favour of the economical ideal, but also if the inheritance of Schuman is still alive.
	www.politiek-actie.net /pages/dossiers/europa/sociaal/en_wim_kok_europa_verschralen.htm (1228 words)

	Wim Kok chairman - the official Anne Frank House website
		Wim Kok writes in the Anne Frank House guest book during a visit to the museum in 1999
		On December 15 ex Prime Minister, Wim Kok, became chairman of the Anne Frank House Supervisory Board.
		As well as Wim Kok, the members are: Ted Musaph (vice-chairman), Jacqueline Biesheuvel, Henk Koning, Pauline Kruseman, Martin Simon and Herman Tjeenk Willink.
	www.annefrank.org /content.asp?pid=474&lid=2 (152 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Kok will remain in office as caretaker prime minister until previously scheduled elections on 15 May. Van den Berg said the Interchurch Council is calling on Kok to travel to Bosnia and explain to the Bosnian people what happened and what steps the Dutch government is taking to shoulder its responsibility.
		Kok already had said publicly that he would not be a candidate for re-election.
		Goudswaard also dismissed speculation that Kok ordered the lengthy investigation in the hope the crisis would cool off before his government was forced to face it.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/04/17042002085151.asp (1064 words)

	Kok, Wim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After an inconclusive general election in May 1994, Kok eventually succeeded in forming a broad-based three-party coalition of the PvdA with the People's Party of Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and Democrats 66 (D-66), both centrist parties.
		In August 2001, Kok announced that he would stand down as PvdA leader after elections in May 2002, and named parliamentary floor leader Ad Melkert as his chosen successor.
		Kok spent over 20 years in the trade-union movement before winning a parliamentary seat for the PvdA in 1986.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0045525.html (285 words)

	CNN.com - Kok wins praise for resignation - April 17, 2002
		Later on Wednesday, Kok faced questioning in parliament about his decision to resign over criticism in the report of the government he led in 1995.
		Kok said on Tuesday the international community "is anonymous and cannot take responsibility" for botching its Bosnia peacekeeping operation.
		The centre-left coalition between Kok's PvdA Labour Party, VVD liberals and centrist D66 is performing poorly in opinion polls with maverick anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn bidding to help form a new center-right government after the election.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/17/dutch.government (837 words)

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		Kok said the Netherlands was one of the world's largest contributors to organisations combating the disease.
		President Thabo Mbeki, who met Kok earlier yesterday at Tuynhuys for a private meeting, was in the audience for the address with Deputy President Jacob Zuma, Cabinet ministers and South Africa's new ambassador to The Hague, Priscilla Jana.
		Kok also applauded South Africa's efforts to bring peace in the Congo and Burundi, and said his country fully supported the Millennium Africa Renaissance Programme unveiled earlier this year.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/02/28/southafrica/DUTCH.HTM (272 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| EU 'failing' on economic promises
		The EU appointed Mr Kok to examine how the Lisbon objectives were progressing.
		Mr Kok praised Nordic governments for the way they were running their economies, but he said other EU member states "had not delivered enough".
		According to Mr Kok's report, leaders committed the EU to become by 2010 "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and economic cohesion, and respect for the environment".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3977609.stm (437 words)

	Bystanders to Mass Murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On Tuesday the popular Dutch prime minister, Wim Kok, and his cabinet stepped down in response to a 7,600-page report that faulted the Dutch government and army for sending a flimsy posse of some 400 Dutch peacekeepers on an "ill-conceived and virtually impossible" mission to protect Bosnian Muslims in the U.N. safe area of Srebrenica.
		Kok, who was prime minister at the time of the massacre, reportedly burst into tears when he read the Dutch report.
		Kok's resignation marked the first time in our age of genocide when an outside power has paid a tangible political price for its sins of omission.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/734887/posts (1586 words)

	Epochtimes English Edition :: Ex-Dutch PM Denies Choosing Targets in Yugoslav War
		Wim Kok, Dutch prime minister from August 1994 until August 2002.
		The former prime minister and some of his former cabinet members are being questioned in a civil lawsuit filed by relatives of several people killed in some of the bombings.
		Kok told the court that although the deaths of the civilians are regrettable, it was NATO, not the Netherlands, which chose the targets during the alliance's bombing of Serbia five years ago.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-1-27/19006.html (338 words)

	CNN.com - Q&A: Wim's dramatic departure - April 16, 2002
		We knew Kok was to retire as prime minister at the forthcoming election but we had not expected his career to end in this way.
		The prime minister came to the conclusion after reading the report of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation that what was said in the report was so serious that he had to take the political consequences.
		A: Wim Kok was prime minister at the time, of course, but Defence Minister Dr Joris Voorhoove is no longer in the government -- he has a job with an international institute.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/16/netherlands.qanda (508 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 99-05-26
		Kok, accompanied by Minister for Local Government Arben Demeti and Government Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid, Kastriot Islami, visited the Kosova refugee camp for 40 minutes and showed interest in their living and food conditions.
		TIRANE, May 26 (ata) - By A Haxhiu: The President of Albania, Rexhep Meidani, met on Wednesday with the Dutch Premier, Wim Kok who is on a working visit to Albania to voice the solidarity of his country in the efforts to cope with the grave humanitarian crisis of the Albanian people of Kosove.
		Premier Kok confirmed the support of his country both on the bilateral aspect and in that of the European Union and added that his country would take into consideration any suggestion or project of cooperation of the Albanian Government.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1999/99-05-26.ata.html (4386 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kok has cut unemployment and disability benefits so that it no longer pays better to stay on the dole than go to work.
		Kok's left-wing Labor Party gained eight seats in the May 6 parliamentary vote, boosting its total to 45 in the 150-seat legislature.
		He also pushed hard for strict Dutch monetarist Wim Duisemberg to be named the European Central Bank's first president, backing German demands to keep the bank independent from political interference and to insist on small budget deficits.
	www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/05/14/f-p1s3.htm (962 words)

	Maxima-Zorreguieta
		And the former Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel, who was secretly sent to personally meet with Jorge Zorreguieta, had successfully persuaded him not to attend the wedding for the sake of the future of his beloved daughter.
		Kok's elegant solution was a big surprise and won great public approval.
		Ironically, each time, it was Wim Kok's social democratic party, the PvdA, initially the most anti-Orange party, that saved the dynasty.
	www.xs4all.nl /~endi/Aboe-maxima.htm (1070 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Anatomy of a Massacre -- Apr. 29, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kok's dramatic move came after a six-year investigation by the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) into the massacre of Bosnian Muslim men in Srebrenica in July 1995.
		Kok, who was Prime Minister at the time, had tears in his eyes as he listened to the report, presented not far from where former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and others face war-crimes charges for the massacre.
		Kok had already announced in August 2001 that he is retiring from national politics next month.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020429-232505,00.html (830 words)

	Democraten 66 : D66
		D66 became a member of the two "purple" coalitions, supplying members of the first[?] and second cabinets of Wim Kok.
		In the 2002 elections with lijsttrekker Thom de Graaf[?] (also faction chairperson) the number of its seats was reduced from 14 to 7 and it returned to the opposition.
		Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst[?] - Minister of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fishery in the second cabinet of Wim Kok and Minister of Economy in the second cabinet of Jan Peter Balkenende.
	www.fastload.org /d6/D66.html (762 words)

	EU should issue report cards on Lisbon agenda goals: Kok report - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The experts' report on the 10-year Lisbon strategy, adopted in 2000 to make the European Union the world's most competitive economy, is on the agenda at a commission meeting on Wednesday and an EU summit on Thursday and Friday.
		In principle, the Kok report should allow the commission and the member states to make decisions about a relaunch of the Lisbon agenda at the European Council meeting in the first half of 2005.
		Kok, in presenting the report to EU commissioners on Wednesday, had hoped to meet with the incoming commission headed by Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, which has made EU competitiveness a top priority.
	www.eubusiness.com /European_Council/041101161711.4mvr7137 (742 words)

	CNN.com - Dutch election on despite murder - May 9, 2002
		The party leader gained popularity with verbal attacks on the Netherlands' growing Muslim population and strident criticism of Kok, a social democrat, and his liberal and conservative coalition partners.
		The former academic and columnist had been sent death threats in recent months and had employed bodyguards but was unable to afford 24-hour a day protection, a spokesman said.
		Kok appealed for calm in response to the angry crowds clashing with police, smashing windows and setting two cars alight.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/07/fortuyn.election (809 words)

	The demonization of Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch up and coming politician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wim Kok called Fortuyn an evil man and he was using the hate against immigrants, the BBC and Time compared him to Haider, Marcel van Dam (ex-PvdA, currently has a political 'discussion' program on national TV with the VARA, the PvdA broadcaster) openly described Fortuyn as a nazi.
		Our minister-president, Wim Kok (PvdA), was allowed to quickly shake the hand of Yasser Arafat and thereby giving the world the impression that the Netherlands are running along in the world of the big states.
		Blair and Kok seem to have forgotten it and now say Israel and their leader Sharon is the parasite of the world and the aggressor.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/645932/posts (2986 words)

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