Jan Peter Balkenende (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑn ˈpetər ˈbɑɫkənɛndə] ( listen)) (born May 7, 1956) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal party and since July 22, 2002 the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. He is currently leading his Fourth cabinet, which is scheduled to be in office until 2011.
Jan Peter Balkenende, legally Jan Pieter Balkenende, was born on 7 May 1956 in the village of Biezelinge near the town Kapelle in the...
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Jan Peter Balkenende (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑn ˈpetər ˈbɑɫkənɛndə] ( listen)) (born May 7, 1956) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal party and since July 22, 2002 the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. He is currently leading his Fourth cabinet, which is scheduled to be in office until 2011.
Jan Peter Balkenende, legally Jan Pieter Balkenende, was born on 7 May 1956 in the village of Biezelinge near the town Kapelle in the Netherlands. His father Jan Pieter Balkenende was a cereal grains merchant and his mother Thona Johanna Sandee was a teacher. Balkenende currently resides with his wife, Bianca Hoogendijk, and his daughter Amelie in Capelle aan den IJssel. He is renting an apartment in The Hague rather than living in the Catshuis, the formal residency of the Prime Minister. He is a devout member of the Calvinist Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
Balkenende went to a Protestant primary school in Kapelle. He attended secondary school at the "Christian...
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