The Harry Potter comparison is an old one. Balkenende used it himself in his 2002 election campaign and was reported as such by the BBC, so it's a bit of a beat up. I'm sure you could come up with far more unflattering ones, even for the Belgian PM.
June 07, 2005
I can't wait for the next Belgium V Holland soccer match
A diplomatic incident between Belgium and The Netherlands over the weekend after an interview with Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht in which he described the Dutch PM Jan-Peter Balkenende as "a mixture between Harry Potter and a nice petit bourgeois". All in aid of a spat over the EU Treaty referendum, which De Gucht claims would have been passed in a Belgian referendum.
The Harry Potter comparison is an old one. Balkenende used it himself in his 2002 election campaign and was reported as such by the BBC, so it's a bit of a beat up. I'm sure you could come up with far more unflattering ones, even for the Belgian PM.
The Harry Potter comparison is an old one. Balkenende used it himself in his 2002 election campaign and was reported as such by the BBC, so it's a bit of a beat up. I'm sure you could come up with far more unflattering ones, even for the Belgian PM.
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