Dennis de Jong

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Dennis de Jong

Cornelis (Dennis) de Jong (born May 22, 1955 in Delft ) is a Dutch politician of the Socialist Party .

Life

After finishing school, De Jong studied law and political economy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam , where he graduated in law in 1976 and economics in 1977. He then went to New York City , where he studied at the New School of Social Research and received his Masters in International Relations in 1979 . After completing his studies, De Jong got a job as a diplomat at the Dutch Foreign Office. From 1983 to 1987 De Jong worked at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor in the Netherlands and from 1987 to 1993 he worked for the Ministry of Justice, where he was head of the Aliens Policy Department. In 2000 he received his doctorate in international law. De Jong has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 . He is on the board of the European Parliament Platform for Secularism in Politics (EPPSP).

MEP

De Jong is vice chairman of the special committee against organized crime, corruption and money laundering .

He is a member of the Committee for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Delegation for Relations with the Countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He is a deputy on the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs .

De Jong lives in Rotterdam with his partner Kees Vrijdag . He is a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands .

Works (selection)

  • 2009: Nederland wil less Brussel
  • 2000: The freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief in the United Nations - 1946–1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Dennis de Jong in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / politicsreligion.eu
  3. ^ Website of the European Parliament
personal data
SURNAME Jong, Dennis de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jong, Cornelis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch lawyer, diplomat and politician (SP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Delft