Piet Hein Donner
Jan Pieter Hendrik " Piet Hein " Donner ( born October 20, 1948 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratisch Appèl (CDA ). Since 1 February 2012, he is Vice President of the Dutch Raad van State ( Council of State ).
Life
Thunder grew up in a Protestant family. His father was André Donner, who worked as a judge at the European Court of Justice from 1958 to 1979. After leaving school, thunder studied law at the Free University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1974. Thunder was a member of the CDA party. From 17 May 1994 until February 22, 2007 Donner was a deputy in the Second Chamber of the States General. From 22 July 2002 to September 21, 2006 was thunder Minister of Justice in the Cabinets Balkenende I, Balkenende II and Balkenende III. 2006 Donner resigned as Minister of Justice. The trigger was a public report on the causes of death of eleven people in a fire at the prison of Schiphol Airport.
From February 22 2007 to 14 October 2010 was thunder Social and Labour Minister of the Netherlands in the Cabinet Balkenende IV After that, he was Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in the Cabinet Rutte I. On December 16, 2011, he resigned this office to to assume the office of the vice president of the Raad van State. Thunder lives in The Hague and is a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
Controversial remarks about a possible introduction of Sharia law in the Netherlands
In 2006, called his remarks as Minister of Justice about the conceivable possibility that Sharia law, that is, Islamic law of God, could one day be enshrined in the constitution in a democratic way in the Netherlands, a wave of protest out:
This statement was rejected in principle by all parties political spectrum, as well as by a Muslim leader.
His critics thought to meet him, that Sharia is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe agreed that in the Netherlands - the law is - as in the EU. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR ) ruled in fact several methods that Sharia law " incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy" is.