Jules Maaten
| Jules Maaten | |
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| Regional Director for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for sub-Sahara Africa | |
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In office 2016 – present |
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| Preceded by | Hubertus von Welck |
| Country Director for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in the Philippines | |
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In office 2010–2016 |
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| Preceded by | Siegfried Herzog |
| Succeeded by | Wolfgang Heinze |
| Member of the European Parliament for Netherlands |
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In office 1999–2009 |
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| Constituency | Netherlands |
| Personal details | |
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17 April 1961 Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands |
| Website | Jules Maaten |
Jules Maaten (born 17 April 1961 in Nieuwer-Amstel) is a Dutch politician and since August 2016 Regional Director for sub-Sahara Africa for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), based in Johannesburg. Prior to that he was FNF country director in the Philippines (2010-2016), supporting projects for good governance, human rights, free trade and the "It's All About Freedom"-project that includes an annual Freedom Run against corruption.
From 1999-2009 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie), Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He was also a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Jules Maaten was elected as a member of the European Parliament in the European Elections of 10 June 1999, on the list of the Dutch Liberal Party VVD and he joined the Liberal Group in the Parliament. He sat on the Committee for the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs and, from 2002, on the Foreign Affairs Committee. During the first part of the legislature he sat on Economic and Monetary Committee. He has done legislative work on such issues as the Tobacco Directive, the introduction of the euro currency, water quality, AIDS, completion of the EU's internal market in alcohol products, international banking fees, the European Central Bank, safety of children's toys, car exhaust emissions, food safety, and genetically modified organisms and human genetics, homeopathic and pharmaceutical products, Dutch prisoners in Thailand.
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