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Dick Schoof, the former head of the Dutch intelligence service, is to become the new prime minister of the Netherlands, the incoming right-wing government announced on Tuesday. Schoof, 67, is currently serving in the top civil servant job at the Justice Ministry. Prior to that he was head of the Dutch counter-terrorism unit and Dutch intelligence agency (AIVD). He has no current party affiliation. Geert Wilders’ nationalist and right-wing Party for Freedom scored a dramatic victory in November’s general election but not enough to govern outright. It took months for the anti-Islam and anti-immi…

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