Jeroen Dijsselbloem

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Jeroen Dijsselbloem (2013)

Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem [ jəˈɾun ˈdɛi̯səlblum ] (born March 29, 1966 in Eindhoven ) is a Dutch politician of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA). From November 2012 to October 26, 2017 he was Minister of Finance in the Rutte II cabinet . Since January 2013 Dijsselbloem has been chairman of the Eurogroup . On July 13, 2015, he was elected for a second two and a half year term. Dijsselbloem resigned from this office on January 12, 2018. The Portuguese Mário Centeno was elected as his successor on December 4, 2017 . Since May 2019 he has been the chairman of the Dutch Security Council Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid .

Life

From 1978 to 1985 Dijsselbloem attended Eckartcollege in Eindhoven. After graduating from high school in 1985, Dijsselbloem studied agricultural economics at Wageningen University until 1991 with a focus on business administration, agricultural policy and social economic history . In 1991 he completed his studies after a stay abroad in Cork to prepare his thesis. Earlier versions of his official biography at European institutions also stated that he had obtained a master's degree in business economics in Cork, but research turned out to be wrong. A spokesman for Dijsselbloem described it as a mistake that the degree had been confused with the master's degree from Wageningen.

In 1992 Dijsselbloem initially worked as an assistant for the PvdA group in the European Parliament and in 1993 switched to the PvdA group in the Dutch parliament as a consultant for spatial planning, environmental and agricultural policy . From 1996 to 1998 he was a member of the staff of the Minister of Agriculture Jozias van Aartsen and then deputy head of the staff until 2000.

After Dijsselbloem had already joined the PvdA in 1985 and was a member of the Wageningen municipal council from 1994 to 1997 , he moved up to the House of Representatives in March 2000. In the parliamentary elections on May 15, 2002 , he won no seat; in November 2002 he moved up again and was a member of the House of Representatives until his appointment as Minister of Finance in 2012. There he was parliamentary group spokesman for education and youth welfare and chairman of a parliamentary committee for innovations in education in 2007/08.

In 2008 Dijsselbloem was elected deputy chairman of the parliamentary group and, after Job Cohen's resignation in February 2012, took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group. When, after the parliamentary elections in 2012, the right-wing liberal Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD) and the social democratic PvdA negotiated the formation of a grand coalition, Dijsselbloem was negotiator together with the PvdA top candidate Diederik Samsom . During the formation of the government, he became Minister of Finance on November 5, 2012 under Prime Minister Mark Rutte ( Rutte II cabinet ).

Financial policy, estimated 2012, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Spiegel Dijsselboem on the issue of dealing with the crisis countries of the European sovereign debt crisis as "less hartleibig" and "gentler than the current incumbent Jan Kees de Jager " one, however dismissed the Süddeutsche Zeitung points out that the coalition agreement between VVD and PvdA confirms the previous hard line of the Netherlands in solidarity with Germany.

On January 21, 2013 Dijsselbloem became the new chairman of the Eurogroup . The 17 finance ministers of the euro zone elected him to succeed the Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker . Dijsselbloem was the only candidate for the post. At the meeting of the Eurogroup on July 13, 2015 in Brussels, he was re-elected for a second term of office; the opposing candidate was the Spanish Minister for Economic Affairs, Luis de Guindos .

In March 2013, the Republic of Cyprus was on the verge of national bankruptcy (see euro crisis in Cyprus ); Dijsselbloem and other eurozone finance ministers met all night. His conduct of negotiations also received criticism at the time.

In mid-March 2017, Dijsselbloem came under pressure as head of the euro group because he said in an interview with reference to the “confidence-building” effect of the European Stability Pact : “I can't spend all my money on schnapps and women and then ask for your support . This principle applies on a personal, local, national and even on a European level. ”The media and politicians in southern European countries in the Eurozone interpreted this sentence in such a way that Dijsselbloem specifically accused them of wasting all their money on“ alcohol and women ” ; Among other things, the Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa then called for his resignation.

In April 2019 it was announced that he would take up the position of chairman of the Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid in May 2019 after the previous head of the authorities Tjibbe Joustra had retired.

Dijsselbloem lives in Wageningen with his partner Gerda, his daughter and his son .

literature

Web links

Commons : Jeroen Dijsselbloem  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tagesschau.de: Dijsselbloem confirmed in office ( Memento from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Mário Centeno elected new Eurogroup President | EU Council Newsroom. Accessed December 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jeroen Dijsselbloem - Levensloop. Personal website (Dutch); Homepage Eckartcollege (Dutch).
  4. ↑ The curriculum vitae of Jeroen Dijsselbloem. ( Memento of April 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Government.nl (PDF; 275 kB).
  5. ↑ Dutch Finance Minister amends Cork University degree error. In: Irish Independent , April 2013.
  6. ↑ Christoph Schult: Juncker successor: French Moscovici could become the new Mr. Euro. In: Spiegel Online , December 4, 2012.
  7. ↑ Javier Cáceres: Quick and Painful. After only 50 days the new government is in place in the Netherlands. Above all, it will expose the citizens to further cuts in the social system. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 31, 2012, p. 9.
  8. ↑ Juncker successor clarified: Dijsselbloem leads Eurogroup. In: Tagesschau.de , January 21, 2013.
  9. ↑ Werner Mussler: Intelligent, straightforward and efficient. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ Future rescue strategy: Euro group leader threatens crisis countries with Cyprus method. In: Spiegel Online , March 25, 2013.
  11. ↑ Crisis manager Dijsselbloem: false start for the top euro savior. In: Spiegel Online , March 26, 2013.
  12. ↑ Werner Mussler: After an interview in the FAZ Dijsselbloem: "I regret that it was perceived as 'North versus South'". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 22, 2017.
  13. ↑ Dijsselbloem wordt voorzitter Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid
  14. ↑ CV on Parlement.com, accessed on May 11, 2015.
predecessor Office successor
Jan Kees de Jager Minister of Finance of the Netherlands
2012–2017 		Wopke Hoekstra
personal data
SURNAME Dijsselbloem, Jeroen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dijsselbloem, Jeroen René Victor Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Eindhoven