Jaap Blokker
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Jacob "Jaap" Blokker was a Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 businessman and executive.

Blokker was born in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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. From 1976 to 2010 he was general director of Blokker Holding, which operates a series of chain stores in various countries, the most well-known in the Netherlands is Blokker. He was also an outspoken critic of the euro
Euro
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 and the effects of immigration
Immigration
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 and published his criticism in the Blokker Holding annual reports.

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In Memoriam Jaap Blokker
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