Gerrit Zalm
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"Gerrit Zalm" is a retired Netherlands/Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He served as Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)/Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands/Deputy Prime Minister from May 27, 2003 until February 22, 2007 in the Netherlands cabinet Balkenende-2/Cabinets Balkenende II and Netherlands cabinet Balkenende-3/III. He served earlier as Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)/Minister of Finance in the Netherlands cabinet Kok-1/Cabinets Kok I and Netherlands cabinet Kok-2/II from August 22, 1994 until July 22, 2002. After his term as Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)/Minister of Finance ended in 2002 he was selected by the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy to succeed retiring Party leader and Parliamentary group leader/Parliamentary leader in House of Representatives of the Netherlands/House of Representatives Hans Dijkstal. He served in this position for a full year for before becoming Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)/Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands/Deputy Prime Minister in the Netherlands cabinet Balkenende-2/Cabinet Balkenende II.

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I think the final growth percentage for this year will start with a 1.

It is interesting to have the competition commissioner with us. I think there are still some barriers.

Everybody worries about that.

I am also delighted that a fully-fledged government will soon be in place once more.

Is no longer a partner we can trust, and we want new elections, preferably as soon as possible. It's gone far enough with all this bickering. It's time to let the people speak.

I think we can cope with that.

You can also be pessimistic and worry that there will be so many disagreements that nothing will come of it. Let us remain optimistic in that regard for the time being.

Europe can now play the role on the international stage that its economic weight entitles it to.

By my assessment, I am looking at an optimistic scenario whereby I hope the combination of the two biggest parties will lead to tackling of the problems.