Jeroen Dijsselbloem

At 58 years old, Jeroen Dijsselbloem physical status not available right now. We will update Jeroen Dijsselbloem's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Jeroen René (Dutch) is a Dutch politician and economist who serves as Mayor of Eindhoven since 13 September 2022, replacing John Jorritsma (VVD). He has also been Chairman of Wageningen University's supervisory board since 1 April 2019. He is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA).

Dijsselbloem was Minister of Finance in the Second Rutte cabinet, serving from 5 November 2012 to 26 October 2017. He served as President of the Eurogroup from 21 January 2013 to 12 January 2018, as well as President of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) from 11 February 2013 to 12 January 2018. From 1 May 2019 to September 2022, he served as Chairman of the Dutch Safety Board from 1 May 2019 to September 2022.

Early life and education

Victor Anton Dijsselbloem was born on March 29, 1966 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His parents were both schoolteachers. He was born in Rome as a Roman Catholic.

Dijsselbloem attended a Roman Catholic primary school in Son en Breugel and Eckartcollege (1978–85) in Eindhoven. He attended Wageningen University from 1985 to 1991, where he obtained an engineer's degree ("ingenieur") in agricultural economics, majoring in industry economics, agricultural policy, and socioeconomic and economic history.

Dijsselbloem carried out research in business economics at the University College Cork (1991) in Ireland, but he did not graduate from this university.

Personal life

In Wageningen, Dijsselbloem and his partner live together. They have a son and a daughter.

Source

Political career

Dijsselbloem's interest in politics started in 1983, when widespread protests against Pershing cruise missiles that attracted hundreds of thousands of Dutch children into leftwing movements boosted the nation's Pershing cruise missiles, which brought hundreds of thousands of Dutch youth to leftwing movements. He became a member of the Labour Party in 1985 (PvdA).

He served for the Labour Party's parliamentary section from 1993 to 1996. He served on Wageningen's municipal council from 1994 to 1996. He worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature, and Fishery from 1996 to 2000, under Minister Jozias van Aartsen and State Secretary Geke Faber.

Dijsselbloem was elected to the House of Representatives from 2000 to 2012, but there was a brief pause after the Labour Party suffered a humiliating defeat in 2002 general elections. Due to Peter Rehwinkel's resignation, he reentered the lower house in November that year. He led a parliamentary inquiry into education reform in 2007. He concentrated on youth care, special education, and teachers. Following Job Cohen's resignation as the party leader and legislative leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives, he became the interim parliamentary leader, serving until the end of March 2012, where Diederik Samsom was elected as the next Labour Party leader.

Dijsselbloem was appointed Minister of Finance by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on November 15 in the Second Rutte cabinet on November 15th. Dijsselbloem's commitment to fiscal discipline was evident from the start.

He nationalized SNS Reaal, preventing the financial institution from going bankrupt on February 1st. Owners and owners of subordinated debt are paid no compensation, while others banks of the country are obliged to contribute up to one billion euros. "intelligent, balanced, and excellent at finding compromises" were the year's top politicians by December 2013, according to the Dutch press, Dijsselbloem politician of the year. In a reply, he expressed surprise at winning the award because he "does not work on the front."

He was later identified as a potential European Commissioner in the Netherlands following the 2014 European elections; the post was instead directed to Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans.

Wopke Hoekstra, the Christian Democratic Appeal, succeeded him as Minister of Finance on October 26, 2017. He resigned from the House of Representatives the day before, despite being reelected in the 2017 Dutch general election in March; William Moorlag joined the States General to fill the vacancy.

Dijsselbloem, a group of the Ministers of Finance of the Eurozone, those member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro as their official currency on January 21. Spain was the only European country not to endorse his candidacy.

Dijsselbloem failed early in his two-and-a-half years as a result of his "Cyprus bail-in" treatment. He was at the forefront of the negotiations, which culminated in the collapse of the bailout and subsequent public display of the bailout in March 2013. He retracted criticism of the precedent of taking depositors' balances as part of bank rescues, but "I am fairly positive that the markets will see this as a cost-effective, highly targeted, and specific option rather than a more general strategy." It would force all financial institutions, as well as investors, to consider the risks they are taking on because they will now have to accept that it will also hurt them."

The Financial Times and Reuters reported on March 24 that Dijsselbloem saw the Cyprus bail-in as a model for ending a bankruptcy. However, it was the interviewer who had used the word "template" rather than Dijsselbloem himself. Dijsselbloem said explicitly on March 26 that he did not consider the Cyprus case to be a template.

Following Syriza's victory in the January 2015 legislative election, Dijsselbloem, as the Eurogroup's leader, later represented European creditors in talks with Greece over its bailout plans. Initially, the Greek government, led by Syriza and the Independent Greeks, began bilateral negotiations with creditors, but the Eurogroup later decided on a postponement of the bailout for four months. On midnight, July 1, 2015, the talks for a new bailout agreement skipped by a month. (Athens time) Following the Greek referendum on July 5, which saw the then-famous bailout proposal from the Eurogroup being rejected by 61% of voters, a crisis summit was held on July 12 to discuss Greece's new bailout request. Dijsselbloem doubted that the Greek plans were credible ahead of the summit.

On Monday, the parties finally reached an agreement for a new bailout package. On the 15th of July, Dijsselbloem blasted the Syriza government as ideologues, insisting that the "every sentence had ideological baggage." Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Greece's top negotiator, who published this story in his book Adults in the Room, was also chastised for subpoena in return." Even in his hotel room in Brussels, Alexis Tsipras, my prime minister, would call him directly. Dijsselbloem succeeded in weakening my position in the Eurozone by hinting at a more tolerant attitude if Tsipras agreed not to keep him from having to deal with me, owing to Tsipras' detriment, mainly Tsipras."

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, gave her support to Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos in his attempt to replace Dijsselbloem as the head of the Eurogroup from 2015; De Guindos is a founding member of the European People's Party center-right political party. Meanwhile, Dijsselbloem declared he would seek a second term on June 5, triggering de Guindos' declaration that he would mount a challenge. Dijsselbloem said in a subsequent letter requesting that he be reappointed to two-and-a-half years as Eurogroup chair that will promote the currency union's smooth functioning. The remaining countries voted for a second term unanimously at a Eurogroup meeting in July 2015.

Dijsselbloem, alongside Mario Draghi of the European Central Bank, and Donald Tusk at the European Council, released the so-called "Five Presidents' Report" on the future of the European Monetary Union in June 2015, which largely echoed calls from Germany and other northern eurozone countries to enforce spending limits across the eurozone. Mário Centeno was elected as his successor as President of the Eurogroup on December 4, 2017.

Following Christine Lagarde's departure as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2019, Dijsselbloem and Kristalina Georgieva were the only candidates considered by European governments as potential successors; Dijsselbloem was backed by a coalition of countries led by the Netherlands and Germany. Georgieva eventually received the support of 56% of EU states, but the bloc's population was still 56 percent, falling short of what was expected. However, Dijsselbloem conceded defeat.

"I attribute utmost importance to solidarity as a social democrat," he told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in March 2017. However, those who request it have duties. I can't afford to spend all my money on alcohol and women and then ask for assistance. When referring to Southern European countries that have been affected by the European debt crisis, the principle holds true on a personal, regional, national, and even on a European basis. Many European politicians reacted positively after Gianni Pittella, the head of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament (to whom Dijsselbloem's party belongs), said, "there is no excuse or reason for using such language, especially from someone who is supposed to be a feminist."

"Eurozone is about accountability, brotherhood, but also respect," Manfred Weber, the head of the European People's Party Group, posted on Twitter. Stereotypes have no place in stereotypes. António Costa, Portugal's prime minister, said his words were "racist, xenophobic, and sexist" and that "Europe will only be credible as a joint initiative on the day when Mr. Dijsselbloem stops being Head of the Eurogroup, and apologises to all the countries and peoples that were profoundly offended by his words." Matteo Renzi, the former Italian prime minister, called on Dijsselbloem to resign, saying, "if he wants to offend Italy, he should do it in a sports bar back home, not in his office."

"Everyone knows that I did not say that all southern Europeans invest their money on alcohol and women," Dijsselbloem said in response. That was not what was in the interview, and it wasn't my intention to tell anyone that it was not mine. The rage surrounding the interview is rooted in anger over eight years of government measures to cope with the crisis. [...] I might have reacted differently otherwise. But it was my way of expressing that solidarity is not charity. It is not for nothing that the European emergency fund's assistance services are accompanied by stringent conditions: you can obtain extremely cheap loans if you take action to restore order. That is a significant feature. My message to those people who insist on those two words may be inconvenient. [...] If we keep breaking our previous agreements, it will not end well with the Eurozone. [...] My word choice was wrong, and I'm sorry if you were offended, but I'm still behind the story."

Source