Dutch immigration minister sidelined

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Series Details 15.12.06
Publication Date 15/12/2006
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Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch prime minister, sidelined his controversial immigration minister Rita Verdonk on the 14 December 2006 and agreed a partial halt to the expulsion of asylum seekers as he sought to defuse a political crisis that had threatened his caretaker government.

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