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Wim Kok

1938–2018 · 20th century

Wim Kok was a Dutch trade union leader and Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 to 2002. A co-architect of the Wassenaar Agreement as union leader, he led two 'purple' coalitions of social democrats and liberals, without the Christian Democrats for the first time in decades. His government resigned in 2002 after a report on the Srebrenica massacre.

Wim Kok
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Wim Kok. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/wim-kok
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