Presiding over next week's summit will be the Dutch prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende.
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has said the Netherlands will not vote again.
This time early runners for the president's position include a British former prime minister, Tony Blair, and the Dutch prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende.
The new centre-right government of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, which came to power last May, says it wants to find a "tough but fair solution".
"You cannot get over the French and Dutch problems while Chirac and Balkenende are still in government, " says the leader of the Liberal group in the European Parliament, Graham Watson.
The Netherlands has been run by a caretaker government since February when a coalition led by the CDA's former leader, Jan Peter Balkenende, collapsed after a row over military involvement in Afghanistan.
Mr Balkenende decided to join the "coalition of the willing" assembled by US President George W Bush because, he said, Saddam Hussein had consistently flouted UN resolutions and possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Balkenende said his government has yet to discuss whether Dutch troops would remain in Iraq beyond the end of June, when the United States plans to hand over power to a new Iraqi government.
Most shamefully, Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch prime minister, has recommended that Hirsi Ali simply quit the Netherlands and has refused to grant her even a week's protection outside the country, during which she might raise funds to hire security of her own.
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Almost comically, a current favourite is the Belgian prime minister of less than a year's standing, the unknown Herman Van Rompuy, who seems not yet to have acquired as many critics as his longer-serving Dutch and Luxembourgeois counterparts, Jan Peter Balkenende and Jean-Claude Juncker.
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