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He is most known for being a Netherlands minister of the foreign affairs between 1982 and 1993, when he took a job as a member of the European Commission.

Hans Van Den Broek started his career as a lawyer. He joined the Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP) and was member of the municipality council of Rheden between 1970 and 1974. Between 1976 and 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D he was member of Tweede KamerThe Tweede Kamer is the second chamber or lower house of the Staten-Generaal the parliament in the Netherlands. It has 150 seats which are filled through elections using a party-list proportional representation system. The building of the Tweede Kamer is, the lower house of the Dutch parliamentAlternative meanings: Parliamentary system, Parliament (band), Parliament (cigarette). A parliament is a legislative body, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system derived from that of the United Kingdom., as representative of KVP and later of the Christen-Democratisch Appèl (CDA).

He was Netherlands minister for foreign affairs in Ruud LubbersRudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers (born May 7, 1939) is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982 until 1994, as a member of the Christian CDA party. A strong political conservative, duri governments three times and was in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac one of the EU negotiators in Brioni AgreementThe Brioni Agreement is a document signed on the Brioni (Brijuni) islands (near Pula, Croatia) on July 7th 1991 by representatives of the Republic of Slovenia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under the political sponsorship of the European that ended ten day war in SloveniaThe Republic of Slovenia ( Slovenian: Slovenija is a coastal sub-Alpine country in south central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north.. On 6 January 1993 he became member of the European Commission and has been once again charged for the foreign relations, especially the Enlargement of the European Union. He remained on that position until March 1999, when he retired from European politics.

Hans van den Broek is nowadays president of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) and president of the Radio Netherlands.

Hans van den Broek is married and has two daughters, one of them is Marilène van den Broek , the wife of Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven .