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Pierre René Hubert Marie "Rene" van der Linden (born 14 December 1943) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist.
Van der Linden applied at the Catholic University Brabant in June 1964 majoring in Economics and obtaining an Bachelor of Economics degree in June 1966 and worked as student researcher before graduating with an Master of Economics degree in July 1970. Van der Linden worked as an economics teacher in Tilburg from April 1969 until July 1971. Van der Linden worked as a civil servant for the department of Food Quality of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from July 1971 until January 1973 and served as Chief of staff for the European Commissioner of the Netherlands from January 1973 until January 1977 serving under Pierre Lardinois from January 1973 until January 1977 and for Henk Vredeling from January 1977 until June 1977.
Van der Linden was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1977, taking office on 8 June 1977 serving as a frontbencher and spokesperson for European Affairs and Agriculture and deputy spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Benelux. After the election of 1986 Van der Linden was appointed as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet Lubbers II, taking office on 14 July 1986. On 9 September 1988 Van der Linden resigned following the conclusions of a parliamentary inquiry report into a passport fraud investigation that was mishandled by his predecessor as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Wim van Eekelen who was then serving as Minister of Defence and who had resigned four days earlier on 6 September 1988. Van der Linden returned as a Member of the House of Representatives following the appointment of Jeltien Kraaijeveld-Wouters as Mayor of Hilversum, taking office on 29 November 1988 serving again as a frontbencher chairing the parliamentary committee for Foreign Affairs and spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, Agriculture and Benelux. In December 1997 Van der Linden announced that he wouldn't stand for the election of 1998 and continued to serve until the end of the parliamentary term on 19 May 1998. Van der Linden remained in active in national politics, he was elected as a Member of the Senate after the Senate election of 1999, taking office on 8 June 1999 serving as a frontbencher chairing the parliamentary committee for European Affairs and spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and deputy spokesperson for Agriculture and Benelux. Van der Linden also served as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1 January 2005 until 1 January 2008. Van der Linden also became active in the private sector and public sector and occupied numerous seats as a corporate director and nonprofit director on several boards of directors and supervisory boards (Atlantic Association, Robeco, Oxfam Novib, Trilateral Commission, Akkerbouw, Van Lanschot and Institute of International Relations Clingendael). Van der Linden also worked as a trade association executive for the Industry and Employers confederation (VNO-NCW) and as an education administrator for the Maastricht School of Management serving as Chairman of the Education board from October 1999 until November 2016. Van der Linden was nominated as President of the Senate following the appointed of Yvonne Timmerman-Buck as a Member of the Council of State, serving from 6 October 2009 until 28 June 2011. In November 2014 Van der Linden announced that he wouldn't stand for the Senate election of 2015 and continued to serve until the end of the parliamentary term on 9 June 2015.
Education
Economics: international administrative studies at Catholic Economics Faculty in Tilburg, (1966–1970), (now known as Tilburg University)
Career
- Member of the First Chamber (Senate) of the States-General of the Netherlands (1999–2015)
- President of the First Chamber (Senate) of the States-General of the Netherlands (from 2009 until 2011)
- President of the Committee for European cooperation of the First Chamber of the States-General (from 2002 to 2009)
- Member of the Second Chamber of the States-General of the Netherlands (1977–1986 and 1988–1998)
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs with responsibility for European Affairs (1986–1988)
- Member of the cabinet of European Commissioner Pierre Lardinois (1973–1977) and European Commissioner Henk Vredeling (1977)
- Civil servant, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Netherlands (1971–1973)
- Teacher of economics (1969)
Other posts currently held
- Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) member (since 1989)
- Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU)
- Member of the executive board of the Dutch employers’ confederation
- Board member of Kerk en Nood (Church and Need)
- Chairman of the Maastricht School of Management (since 1999)
- Board member of several associations in the agricultural sector
Party political posts
Chairperson of EPP/CD group in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) (1999–2005) and vice-chairperson (1989–1999) Second vice-chairperson of the Christian Democratic political group, CDA, Second Chamber of the States-General of the Netherlands (1982–1986) Member of the party executive of the CDA Member of the party executive of the former Catholic Popular Party, (KVP), and vice-chairman of the KVP youth section
Other posts previously held
- President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2005–2008)
- Chairperson of the Netherlands delegation to PACE (2003–2005)
- Delegated representative of the First Chamber of the States-General of the Netherlands to the Convention on the Future of the European Union
- Patron of Stichting Lisboa, homeless children in Portugal (1995)
- Chairman of the advisory committee of the national school of translators and interpreters, Rijkshogeschool Opleiding tolk-vertaler (1990)
- Adviser to Combined Chambers of Commerce in Limburg (1989 and 1992)
- Member of Consultative Interparliamentary Benelux Council (1977–1986)
- Board member of the Netherlands Organisation for international assistance, NOVIB,
- President of several cultural foundations
Van der Linden was secretary of state of foreign affairs in the Dutch cabinet Lubbers II. He was responsible for the passport fiasco which was caused by ministerial incompetence
Decorations
Other honours
- Honorary citizen of Nafplio
- Honorary citizen of Liège
- Honorary President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Friendship Award of Azerbaijan Republic 2013
References
- "T.C.CUMHURBAŞKANLIĞI : Anasayfa". www.tccb.gov.tr. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
External links
- Official
- (in Dutch) Drs. P.R.H.M. (René) van der Linden Parlement & Politiek
- (in Dutch) Drs. P.R.H.M. van der Linden (CDA) Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byWim van Eekelen | State Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1986–1988 |
Succeeded byBerend-Jan van Voorst tot Voorst |
| Preceded byPeter Schieder | President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2005–2008 |
Succeeded byLluís Maria de Puig |
| Preceded byYvonne Timmerman-Buck | President of the Senate 2009–2011 |
Succeeded byFred de Graaf |
| State secretaries for foreign affairs of the Netherlands | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | ||
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| Members of the Senate of the Netherlands (2011–2015) | |
|---|---|
| Senate, 7 June 2011 - 8 June 2015 | |
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 16) | |
| Labour Party (PvdA: 14) | |
| Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 11) | |
| Party for Freedom (PVV: 10) | |
| Socialist Party (SP: 8) | |
| Democrats 66 (D66: 5) | |
| GreenLeft (GL: 5) | |
| Christian Union (CU: 2) | |
| Reformed Political Party (SGP: 1) | |
| 50PLUS (50+: 1) | |
| Party for the Animals (PvdD: 1) | |
| Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1) | |
| Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President | |
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Catholic People's Party politicians
- Van Lanschot Kempen people
- Christian Democratic Appeal MEPs
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- Commanders First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog
- Commanders of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
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- Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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- Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
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- Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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- Officers of the Order of Leopold II
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- Oxfam people
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- Presidents of the Senate (Netherlands)
- Recipients of the Order of the Republic (Turkey)
- Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Merit (Philippines)
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- Tilburg University alumni
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- Western European Union people
- 20th-century Dutch civil servants
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- 21st-century Dutch civil servants
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