For years, Jaap Velema, mayor of Westerwolde and therefore of Ter Apel, has been in crisis mode. On Wednesday he will receive the prestigious Machiavelli Prize for public communication. Portrait of a mayor who walks endlessly with dogs Stef and Jiske. “Jaap can sometimes hit the table a little harder.”
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Kind van Ter Apel never bangs his fist on the table: ‘As mayor he is super involved’
