Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem (; born 29 March 1966) is a Dutch politician and economist serving as

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of Eindhoven since 13 September 2022, succeeding John Jorritsma (

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). A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), he has also been Chairman of the

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since 1 April 2019. Dijsselbloem was

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in the

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, serving from 5 November 2012 to 26 October 2017. He also served as President of the

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from 21 January 2013 to 12 January 2018 and President of the Board of Governors of the

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(ESM) from 11 February 2013 until 12 January 2018. He was successively Chairman of the

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. His parents were both schoolteachers. He was raised as a

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.Ir. J.R.V.A. (Jeroen) Dijsselbloem
parlement.com; retrieved 3 February 2013. Dijsselbloem went to a Roman Catholic

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and the Catholic secondary school Eckartcollege (1978–85) in Eindhoven. He studied at the

between 1985 and 1991, where he obtained an engineer's degree ("

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") in agricultural economics in 1991, majoring in

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agricultural policy Agricultural policy describes a set of laws relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products. Governments usually implement agricultural policies with the goal of achieving a specific outcome in the domestic agricultu ...

, and

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and

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. Dijsselbloem subsequently did research in business economics at the

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(1991) in

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, but he did not graduate from this university.Οι ...μέθοδοι χρηματοδότησης Ιρλανδικών γαλακτοκομείων του κ. Ντάισελμπλουμ
Kathimerini, 31 March 2013; retrieved 1 April 2013."Dutch Finance Minister amends Cork University degree error"
'' Irish Independent'', 14 April 2013; retrieved 1 February 2015.

Political career

Dijsselbloem’s interest in politics began in 1983, spurred by the mass protests against U.S. Pershing cruise missiles that drew hundreds of thousands of Dutch youth into leftwing movements.Matt Steinglass and Peter Spiegel,
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, eurozone reformer
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'', 2013. In 1985, he became a member of the Labour Party (PvdA). From 1993 to 1996 he worked for the

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of the Labour Party. From 1994-96 he was a member of the

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. From 1996 to 2000 he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Fishery under Minister Jozias van Aartsen and State secretary

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. From 2000 to 2012, Dijsselbloem was elected to the House of Representatives for the Labour Party, with a brief interruption after the 2002 general elections where the Labour Party suffered a major defeat. He reentered the lower house in November that year due to

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's resignation. In 2007, he led a

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on education reform. He focused on matters of

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care,

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and

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s. Following the resignation of

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as party leader and

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of the Labour Party in the

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on 20 February 2012, he became the interim parliamentary leader, serving until 20 March 2012 when

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was elected as the next party leader of the Labour Party.

Minister of Finance (2012–2017)

On 15 November 2012, Dijsselbloem was appointed by Queen

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to serve as

in the

. From the start, Dijsselbloem emphasised his commitment to fiscal discipline. On 1 February 2013, he

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the

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SNS Reaal, preventing its bankruptcy. Shareholders and owners of subordinated debt are expropriated with no compensation and others banks of the country have to contribute to the takeover up to one billion euros. By December 2013, Dutch press named Dijsselbloem politician of the year, describing him as "intelligent, balanced and good at finding compromises". In a response, he said that he was surprised about winning the prize because he "does not work on the forefront". In the Netherlands, he was later named as a possible European Commissioner following the

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; the post instead went to Foreign Minister

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. He was succeeded as Minister of Finance by

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(

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) on 26 October 2017. He resigned from the House of Representatives the day before, while having been reelected during the

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in March; William Moorlag entered the States General to fill the vacancy.

President of the Eurogroup (2013–2018)

On 21 January 2013, Dijsselbloem took office as President of the

, a grouping of the Ministers of Finance of the

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, those member states of the

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(EU) which have adopted the

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as their official currency; he succeeded

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was the only country not to back his candidacy. Dijsselbloem struggled early in his two and a half-year term and faced criticism for his handling of the " Cyprus bail-in." In March 2013, he took the lead in the negotiation, conclusion and subsequent public promotion of the bailout. He attracted criticism for the precedent of taking depositors' balances as part of bank rescues but said "I am pretty confident that the markets will see this as a sensible, very concentrated and direct approach instead of a more general approach... It will force all financial institutions, as well as investors, to think about the risks they are taking on because they will now have to realise that it may also hurt them." On 24 March 2013, the ''

'' and Reuters reported that Dijsselbloem saw the Cyprus bail-in as a template for resolution of a bankruptcy. However, it was the interviewer that had used the word "template" and not Dijsselbloem himself. On 26 March 2013, Dijsselbloem said explicitly that he did not consider the Cyprus case to be a template. As Eurogroup head, Dijsselbloem later represented European creditors in negotiations with

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over its bailout packages following Syriza's victory in the January 2015 legislative election. Initially the Greek government formed by Syriza and the Independent Greeks pursued bilateral talks with creditors and later the Eurogroup agreed on an extension of the bailout for four months. The negotiations for a new bailout package failed to meet the deadline for a €1.1 billion repayment to the IMF on midnight 1 July 2015 (Athens time). After the 5 July Greek referendum in which the then outstanding bailout offer from the Eurogroup was rejected by 61% of voters, a crisis summit was held on 12 July to negotiate Greece's new bailout request. Ahead of the summit, Dijsselbloem questioned whether the Greek proposals were credible. A deal for a new bailout package between the parties was finally agreed on Monday 13 July. During the debate on the third bailout agreement in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands on 15 July, Dijsselbloem criticised the Syriza government as ideologues, saying that their "every sentence had ideological baggage". He also received criticism for subterfuge in return from Greece's chief negotiator, the Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis, who published this account in his book

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: "From my first Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem began an intensive campaign to bypass me altogether. He would phone Alexis Tsipras, my prime minister, directly – even visiting him in his hotel room in Brussels. By hinting at a softer stance if Tsipras agreed to spare him from having to deal with me, Dijsselbloem succeeded in weakening my position in the Eurogroup – to the detriment, primarily, of Tsipras". In August 2014, German Chancellor

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gave her backing to Spain's Economy Minister, Luis de Guindos, in his bid to succeed Dijsselbloem as head of the Eurogroup from 2015; De Guindos is a member of the same center-right political

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political bloc. Meanwhile, on 5 June 2015, Dijsselbloem announced he would seek a second term, prompting de Guindos saying he would mount a challenge. In a subsequent letter requesting that he be reappointed to serve another two-and-a-half years as Eurogroup chair, Dijsselbloem pledged that he would push for eurozone-wide social and fiscal reforms designed to promote the smooth functioning of the currency union. Once he picked up 10 votes at a Eurogroup meeting in July 2015, the remaining countries decided to vote unanimously for a second term. In June 2015, Dijsselbloem, alongside

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of the

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at the

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and

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at the European Council, issued the so-called "Five Presidents' Report" on the future of the

European Monetary Union The economic and monetary union (EMU) of the European Union is a group of policies aimed at converging the economies of member states of the European Union at three stages. There are three stages of the EMU, each of which consists of prog ...

, including proposals that mostly echoed calls by Germany and other northern eurozone countries to enforce spending rules across the eurozone. On 4 December 2017,

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was elected as his successor as President of the

. Following the resignation of

Christine Lagarde Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (; née Lallouette, ; born 1 January 1956) is a French politician and lawyer who has been serving as President of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th managing director of the ...

as managing director of the

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(IMF) in 2019, Dijsselbloem and

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were the final candidates considered by European governments as potential successors; Dijsselbloem was supported by a group of countries led by the Netherlands and Germany. Georgieva eventually got the backing of 56% of EU states which however represented only 57% of the bloc’s population, falling short of one requirement. However, Dijsselbloem conceded defeat.

Interview controversy

In March 2017, he told the German newspaper ''

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'' "As a Social Democrat, I attribute exceptional importance to solidarity. But those who call for it also have duties. I cannot spend all my money on drinks and women and then hold my hand up for help. That principle applies on a personal, local, national and also on a European level" while referring to Southern European countries affected by the

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. This statement led to strong reactions by many European figures, as

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, head of the

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(to which Dijsselbloem's party belongs) said "there is no excuse or reason for using such language, especially from someone who is supposed to be a progressive".

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, leader of the

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, tweeted "Eurozone is about responsibility, solidarity but also respect. No room for stereotypes". The Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, said his words were "racist, xenophobic and sexist" and that "Europe will only be credible as a common project on the day when Mr. Dijsselbloem stops being Head of the Eurogroup and apologises clearly to all the countries and peoples that were profoundly offended by his remarks". Former Italian Prime Minister

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also called on Dijsselbloem to quit, saying that "if he wants to offend Italy, he should do it in a sports bar back home, not in his institutional role". In response, Dijsselbloem said: "Everyone knows that I did not say that all southern Europeans spend their money on drinks and women. That is not what was in the interview and it was not my message. The anger about the interview is anger about eight years of policies to deal with the crisis. ..I would have rephrased it otherwise probably. But it was my way of making clear that solidarity is not charity. It is not for nothing that the aid programs of the European emergency fund are accompanied by strict conditions: You get very cheap loans provided you take action to restore order. That is an important principle. For the ones who keep zooming in on those two words my message might be inconvenient. ..It will not end well with the Eurozone if we keep breaking our previous agreements. ..My choice of words was not right, I am sorry if you took offense, but I am still behind the message."

Other activities

International organizations

* Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), ''ex officio'' member of the Board of Governors (2016–2017) * European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), ''ex officio'' member of the Board of Governors (2012–2017) * European Investment Bank (EIB), ''ex officio'' member of the Board of Governors (2012–2017) *

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(MIGA),

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, ''ex officio'' member of the Board of Governors (2012–2017) *

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, ''ex officio'' member of the Board of Governors (2012–2017)

Non-profit organizations

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(WEF), Member of the Europe Policy Group (since 2017)

Personal life

Dijsselbloem and his partner live together in

. They have a son and a daughter.How Jeroen Dijsselbloem became Mr Euro from being virtually unknown
, ''

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'', 13 July 2015

References

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