Hans Van Den Broek
"A bold and imaginative
approach is called for.
We will be putting
forward our own ideas.
We will share with you
our own experience in
this regard to the benefit
of all nations of the
Middle East"
--Hans Van Den Broek
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Hans
van den Broek (born 11 December
1936 in Paris) is a Dutch politician.
He
is most known for being a Netherlands minister of the foreign affairs
between 1982 and 1993, when he took a job as a member of the European
Commission.
Hans
Van Den Broek started his career as a lawyer. He joined the Katholieke
Volkspartij (KVP) and was member of the municipality council of Rheden
between 1970 and 1974. Between 1976 and 1981 he was member of Tweede
Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, as representative of
KVP and later of the Christen-Democratisch Appèl (CDA).
He
was Netherlands minister for foreign affairs in Ruud Lubbers
governments three times and was in 1991 one of the EU negotiators in
Brioni Agreement that ended ten day war in Slovenia. On 6 January 1993
he became member of the European Commission and has been once again
charged for the foreign relations, especially the Enlargement of the
European Union. He remained on that position until March 1999, when he
retired from European politics.
Hans
van den Broek is nowadays president of the Netherlands Institute of
International Relations (Clingendael) and president of the Radio
Netherlands.
Hans
van den Broek is married and has two daughters, one of them is Marilène
van den Broek, the wife of Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van
Vollenhoven.
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