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Halbe Zijlstra was born on 21 January, 1969 in Oosterwolde, Netherlands, is a Dutch politician. Discover Halbe Zijlstra's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

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Occupation Politician · Management consultant
Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 21 January, 1969
Birthday 21 January
Birthplace Oosterwolde, Netherlands
Nationality Netherlands

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His wife is Ingrid de Bondt (m. 1999)

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1969

Halbe Zijlstra (born 21 January 1969) is a retired Dutch politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 26 October 2017 to 13 February 2018 in the Third Rutte cabinet.

He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

Halbe Zijlstra was born on 21 January 1969 in Oosterwolde in the Netherlands.

His father was a police detective.

He attended secondary education at vwo level and studied sociology at the University of Groningen, after which he worked for several companies.

1994

Zijlstra has been a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 1 February 1994.

1998

He served as a member of the municipal council of Utrecht from 1998 to 2001, and again from 2003 to 2006.

2006

Zijlstra, a management consultant by occupation, was elected as a member of the House of Representatives after general election of 2006 serving from 30 November 2006 until 14 October 2010 when he was appointed as State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science in the First Rutte cabinet, serving until 5 November 2012.

Zijlstra was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2006 general election, taking his seat on 30 November.

In the House, he was his party's spokesman on care, energy, sports, higher education and sciences and biotechnology.

He said to a newspaper that he visited Putin in his home in 2006.

Putin spoke about 'Great Russia', and when asked what he meant with that term, he responded: "Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic States. And oh yes, Kazakhstan was 'nice to have'," Zijlstra said.

2007

Shortly after the election, he introduced a bill with measures to tackle football Hooligans together with Labour Party MP Hans Spekman, and in 2007 the bill was adopted by Guusje ter Horst, who had become Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in that year.

2010

On 14 October 2010, Zijlstra was appointed as State secretary for Education, Culture and Science in the newly installed First Rutte cabinet.

In this position, he was responsible for a broad portfolio of policy areas within the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, including higher education, science and knowledge, the training and labour conditions of teachers, culture and cultural heritage.

2011

In his two-year term, Zijlstra initiated several changes in higher education policy, including the introduction of scholarships more favourable for long-term students and the creation of the possibility to prolong one's study in exceptional cases in 2011, and placing base scholarships for Master students under the loan system in 2012.

Additionally, Zijlstra initiated budget cuts in the culture sector, sharpening the conditions necessary to be eligible for government subsidies, and merging several cultural funds.

These measures saved a total of 200 million euros.

2012

Following the election of 2012, he returned to the House of Representatives, serving from 20 September 2012 until 26 October 2017; he was chosen as parliamentary leader, serving from 1 November 2012 until 23 March 2017.

After Rutte's first cabinet lost a motion of no confidence in 2012 and new elections were held, Zijlstra returned to the House of Representatives as chairman of his party's parliamentary group.

2014

Van der Veer told the events to Zijlstra in 2014 but clarified in an e-mail to de Volkskrant that Putin's 2006 remarks were "meant historically" and "not by himself" interpreted in the sense of "aggression".

2015

In 2015, Zijlstra authored an op-ed for the NRC Handelsblad daily in which he criticized the Iran nuclear deal framework as "a historical error," a view that echoed Israel’s.

2016

In 2016, he announced he would not be available for a second term as parliamentary leader after the 2017 general election, but that he aspired to enter the cabinet as a minister.

While speaking at a VVD conference in 2016, Zijlstra said that he heard Putin speaking about 'Great Russia' in 2006, suggesting imperialistic ambitions.

Following the United Kingdom's referendum on European Union membership referendum in 2016, Zijlstra noted that Britain was the biggest country in a free-market, antifederalist camp that also includes the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.

He commented: "If the British leave, we’ll have lost an important partner and protectionist spirits will get a louder voice."

Zijlstra resides in Wassenaar, a town just north of The Hague.

He has been an active member of a carrier pigeon club.

2017

He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 26 October 2017 to 13 February 2018.

On 26 October 2017, Zijlstra became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the third government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

In response to the Turkish invasion of northern Syria aimed at ousting U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds from the enclave of Afrin, Zijlstra said that Turkey had the right to defend itself and its border, but at the same time pleaded with Turkey to show restraint.

2018

In February 2018, he admitted that he lied about meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2006, during his earlier career.

In 2018, he corrected that statement that a source had told him about these alleged statements.

"The geopolitical meaning of those words was and is great. I therefore thought it was politically important to make these statements public. The source that told me about Putin's quotation confirmed the events to the Volkskrant, and appreciates the fact that I guarantee anonymity."

Former Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, who attended several talks with Putin, is the source of the story.

On 13 February 2018, Zijlstra announced his resignation as Minister of Foreign Affairs in an address to the House of Representatives.