Lubbers given task of putting together new Dutch government

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Series Details 3.7.06
Publication Date 03/07/2006
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Ruud Lubbers, the veteran Dutch politician, has been handed the task of piecing together the third government in four years of Jan Peter Balkenende, premier, following the collapse, June 2006 of the centre-rightcoalition in the dispute over the citizenship of the anti-Islam campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

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