Jules Maaten

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jules Maaten
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 17, 1961(1961-04-17)
Age	63
Birthplace	Amstelveen
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Aries

Jules Maaten Biography

Jules Maaten is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 17, 1961 in Amstelveen, Netherlands. Jules Maaten (born 17 April 1961 in Nieuwer-Amstel) is a Dutch politician, and as of August 2016, Regional Director for sub-Saharan Africa of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) which is based in Johannesburg. Before that, he served as the FNF director of the country in the Philippines (2010-2016) He was a supporter of initiatives to promote good governance and human rights, as well as free trade, and an “It’s all about Freedom”-project that also includes the every year Freedom Run against corruption.

Jules Maaten was elected as an official membre of the European Parliament in the European Elections on June 10, 1999. He was on the electoral lists from VVD, the Dutch Liberal Party VVD and Maaten was elected to his fellow members of the Liberal Group in the Parliament. He was a member of the Committee for the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs and, since 2002 in 2002, on the Foreign Affairs Committee. In the initial phase of the legislative session, he was on the Economic and Monetary Committee. He was a legislator regarding issues like for instance the Tobacco Directive, the introduction of the euro currency the quality of water, AIDS, completion of the internal market of the EU in alcohol as well as international banking charges as well as for instance, the European Central Bank, safety of children’s toys, automobile emission, safety of food Genetically engineered organisms as well as human genetics, pharmaceutical and homeopathic items, Dutch prisoners in Thailand.

For a number of years he studied History and Law in Amsterdam. He lives in Johannesburg (South Africa) and is married to Eva Horstmann; together they have a daughter Anna (2002).

Jules Maaten MEP was part of the parliamentary delegation which maintained relations with ASEAN countries as well as Korea as well as a variety of inter- groups within the Parliament, comprising Population & Sustainable Development, and Animal Welfare. He was active on EU foreign policy issues , including human rights, nuclear materials, East Timor, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, the International Criminal Court, death penalty and the conflict in Chechnya. In 1999, he also was elected a board member of the European Liberal Democratic Party. Since 2001, he has been the leader of the VVD group in the European Parliament. In the European Parliament, VVD people elected him chief in VVD on the VVD group for European elections in June 2004.

Jules Maaten Net Worth

Jules Maaten is one of the richest Politician from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jules Maaten 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began his political career in 1979, working as the Personal Assistant to an MP in the Netherlands (1979-1981) as well as a member and chairman of the European Youth Policy group of the Dutch International Youth Council, where Dutch youth organizations were discussing their perspectives regarding what the future holds for European unification. In the year following, Jules Maaten became national Board member from JOVD, the Dutch Young Liberals JOVD (1980-1984) and, in 1981, became a member of the IFLRY board in 1981. IFLRY. In 1982, he joined on the Executive Committee of the Youth Forum of the European Communities in Brussels (a Europe-wide body of youth organizations) He was also in the staff of the Netherlands committee for the UN International Youth Year (1983-1985) in which he worked on topics such as youth unemployment and culture. Between 1985 and 1989, the member was on the executive committee of the Liberal International. In 1987, he co-authored an article on Dutch liberalism, as well as published numerous pieces on political topics.

Prior to the election of MEP Jules Maaten was Secretary General of the world- wide union of liberal political parties, the Liberal International, in London (1992-1999) in which time he was involved with other people in promoting democratic movements across Asia, Latin America, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to this (1986-1991) the politician was a city councillor in his home town of Amstelveen close to Amsterdam which was responsible for public finance education as well as social issues. As the president of the World Union of Liberal IFLRY (1983-1989) He was involved in issues related to disarmament and east-west cooperation.

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).

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Jules Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Jules Maaten celebrates birthday on April 17 of every year.