With the death of Frederik ‘Frits’ Bolkestein (91), the VVD loses the man who decades for many liberal was the great example. The intellectual Amsterdammer was the first to put the problem with integration on the political agenda. Initially he was maligned and the VVD member of the PvdA was blamed to ‘fish in cloudy water’. Only from the beginning of the new century did you realize in all political movements that Bolkestein had bite and there were strong hooks and eyes on the multicultural society.
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