Kees Boonman, one of the hundreds of journalists at the Maastricht summit: We simply had to believe what we were told
Kees Boonman lives and breathes politics, according to his colleagues in The Hague, where he has been working for decades as a political reporter and commentator. Born in 1954 in the Dutch Province of Zeeland, he is an old hand at journalism. Former Prime Minister Wim Kok once said that he was ‘tenacious as a terrier’.