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...It would be the Netherlands’ first government resignation in nearly 20 years, when a coalition led by Wim Kok resigned following an investigation into the Netherlands’ role in the Srebrenica massacre....
...Wim Kok was popular around the EU summit table and also coveted the commission job. But after seeing how Mr Lubbers’ overt campaigning failed, he sought to hold back, insisting he was not interested....
...In 1995 the then Labour prime minister Wim Kok described the “shaking off [of] ideological feathers” as a “liberating experience”....
...But Wim Kok, prime minister at the time of the massacre, said the arrest would not allow the country to put Srebrenica behind it....
...… Shell reshuffles Wim Kok, former prime minister of the Netherlands, is stepping down from his board position at Royal Dutch Shell as part of a changing of the guard on the directors’ committees at...
...In Europe, the current Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, is an MBA from Nyenrode (which also produced former prime minister Wim Kok)....
...In a scathing 2004 report, Wim Kok, a former Dutch prime minister, said: “Lisbon is about everything and thus about nothing. Everybody is responsible and thus no one.”...
...In 2004 Wim Kok, a former Dutch prime minister, was given the task of measuring the EU’s progress. He bluntly described the Lisbon strategy as “a synonym for missed objectives and failed promises”....
...Such was the lack of progress towards this laudable goal that by November 2004 an expert group led by former Dutch premier Wim Kok concluded that the Lisbon Agenda risked becoming “a synonym for missed objectives...
...All credit to the succession committee – Jorma Ollila, Wim Kok and Lord Kerr – for persuading him. jennifer.hughes@ft.com...
...It was a role he says he took up as “a favour” to Wim Kok, the leader of the “purple coalition” made up of social democrats, liberals and conservative liberals....
...Wim Kok, former Dutch prime minister, already has an EU report to his name. And his economic “polder model” seems to have broken almost as soon as it was patented....
...His election benefited at the time from a protest vote that expelled the centre-left government of his predecessor, Wim Kok, which was seen as elitist and distant....
...On the left, Wim Kok’s labour-market overhaul cured the “Dutch disease” and cut the Netherlands’ jobless rate to below that of the US....
...As Wim Kok's recent report on the first five years of the strategy showed, there is room for improvement. We cannot simply lay the blame at the door of member states, however....
...Wim Kok, prime minister from 1994 until 2002, once rightly suggested in parliament that given all the good news they’d had, they might do the Mexican wave....
...But Zalm is now in his third four-year term since first taking office in 1994 in the government of Wim Kok....
...Talking tough on the Lisbon Agenda Scene: A meeting of EU ministers to discuss Wim Kok's report on reinvigorating the Lisbon agenda for economic reform and liberalisation....
...This failure to raise economic performance meaningfully was recognised in the recent report by Wim Kok, former Dutch prime minister, and is reflected in the desire of José Manuel Barroso, European Commission...
...The proposal is expected to be one of the key recommendations from a team led by Wim Kok, the former Dutch prime minister, which will this week finalise its report on raising the EU's jobs and growth prospects...
...A team led by Wim Kok, former Dutch prime minister, will this week finalise its report on reviving the European Union's Lisbon agenda to raise jobs and growth prospects....
...The recent report by Wim Kok, the former Dutch prime minister, on the Lisbon strategy for EU economic reform affirms that Greece, although still lagging behind on many fronts, showed the best overall progress...
...As the report on the "Lisbon strategy", under the chairmanship of Wim Kok, former prime minister of the Netherlands, notes: "the pure impact of ageing populations will be to reduce the potential growth rate...
...Competition in Europe Europe’s “Lisbon Strategy” - the push to become the world’s most competitive economy - is failing, according to a report by Wim Kok, the former Dutch prime minister....
...A recently published mid-term review by Wim Kok, the former Dutch prime minister, highlighted the need for reforms, especially in the service sector**....
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