Vicky Maeijer (born 7 September 1986) is a Dutch politician representing the

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(PVV). From 2 July 2024 to 3 June 2025, she served as State Secretary for Long-term and Social Care in the

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. Previously, she was a

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for the

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from 2014 to 2017 and a member of the

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from 2017 to 2024.

Career

Maeijer studied at

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, obtaining a

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in Dutch law and a

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in international and European public law in 2009, which was subsequently declared invalid due to plagiarism. Between 2007 and 2014, she worked at different times as a policy worker for the

, founded in 2006, in the

of the Netherlands and the

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. She started working for Raymond de Roon and later became an aid to Louis Bontes. She entered the

2011 Dutch provincial elections Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands on Wednesday 2 March 2011. Eligible voters elected the members of the provincial councils in the twelve provinces. These elections also indirectly determined the members of the Senate, since the 5 ...

as the

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(top party candidate) for the Party for Freedom at age 24. She stated that she wanted the provincial government to focus on its main tasks of spatial planning, traffic and environment. Other stated issues were the decrease in provincial civil servants, a decrease in the number of members of the provincial State and provincial executive, and a publicly elected

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. Maeijer was a member of the States of South Holland between 17 March 2011 and 1 July 2014. For the 2012 general election she was number 21 on the Party for Freedom list. Until July 2014 she was the party leader in the States of South Holland. In the 2014 European Parliament elections Maeijer was elected for the

. In 2017, she was elected as a Member of the

, and she took office on 23 March. She received a third term in the 2023 general election, and she has since been the PVV's spokesperson for

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, war victims, and sports. After the PVV,

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, and BBB formed the

, Maeijer was sworn in as State Secretary for Long-term and Social Care on 2 July 2024. Her portfolio included

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, supported living,

long-term care Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and ...

, disabilities,

district nursing District nurses work manage care within the community and lead teams of community nurses and support workers. In the United Kingdom, the role requires registered nurses to take a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) approved specialist practitione ...

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s, healthcare quality, personal healthcare budget, addiction care, and patient organizations. In November 2024,

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reported based on plagiarism detection software and expert opinion that Maeijer had copied over half of the content of her master's thesis about the '' Kadi v Council and Commission'' case from other sources. Erasmus University Rotterdam subsequently started an investigation. On March 13, 2025, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) declared her master's thesis invalid and revoked her degree.

Electoral history

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References

External links

European Parliament page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maeijer, Vicky 1986 births Living people Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Dutch MPs 2023– Members of the Provincial Council of South Holland MEPs for the Netherlands 2014–2019 21st-century women MEPs for the Netherlands Party for Freedom politicians Party for Freedom MEPs Politicians from Rotterdam 20th-century Dutch women State secretaries for health of the Netherlands Dutch MPs 2017–2021 Dutch MPs 2021–2023 Party for Freedom MPs