Pieter Omtzigt

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Pieter Omtzigt

Pieter Herman Omtzigt (born January 8, 1974 in The Hague ) is a Dutch politician . Since 2003, with a short break in 2010, he has been a member of the Second Chamber of the States General for the Christian Democratic Appèl (CDA) . In the lower house, Omtzigt deals with financial policy (such as tax policy , EMU and the euro ), old-age provision and European policy .

Career

From 1992 to 1996 Omtzigt studied economics and statistics at the University of Exeter and at the Free International University for Social Studies in Rome . He received his PhD in 2003 from the European University Institute in Florence with a dissertation in econometrics on Essays on Cointegration Analysis . From 2000 to 2002 Omtzigt was a researcher at the University of Insubria in Varese . From 2002 to 2003 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universiteit van Amsterdam .

Omtzigt has been a member of the Second Chamber of the States General since 2003 . He was not re-elected to parliament in the 2010 elections because of his party's huge losses. In October of the same year, however, he was allowed to return to the Second Chamber after a number of CDA MPs had joined the newly formed Rutte I cabinet . In the 2012 elections , he was elected to parliament with preferential votes .

Omtzigt is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In spring 2018, the Parliamentary Assembly appointed him special rapporteur in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia . He also works against the persecution of Christians in the Middle East .

Omtzigt is married and lives in Enschede .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Röhn: The minister who called Daphne Galizia "hate blogger". In: The world . April 9, 2019, accessed July 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Omtzigt, Pieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Omtzigt, Pieter Herman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague