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CV  Jan Marinus Wiersma

Born in Groningen, the Netherlands (1951)

Masters degree in History, University of Groningen (1977)

Present Activities

Research Fellow  and chariman Europe thinktank at the Wiarda Beckman Foundation

Senior Visiting Fellow Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael

Vice president of the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity

Chairman International Advisory Board International Business School Mitrovica

Chairman CEEBP (Central and Eastern European Book Project)

Senior Political Adviser Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD)

President District of South Holland Dutch Labour Party (PvdA)

Past activities

Political advisor Foreign Policy and Security Affairs  Parliamentary Group of the Dutch Labour Party in the National Parliament  (1978-1987)

International Secretary and   2nd vice-president of the Dutch Labour Party (1987-1999)

Campaign director of the Dutch Labour Party (1997-1999)

Vice President of the Party of European Socialists, PES (1999-2004)

Member of the European Parliament  (1994-2009)

  • Member of the Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Committees; substitute member of the Transport and Trade committees
  • Chairman of the inter parliamentary delegation for relations with Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus (1999-2004)
  • Member of the Special Committee of the EP
  • Member of the temporary  Committees on CIA flights, the Echelon global interception system and the disaster with the Prestige oil tanker
  • Rapporteur for the prolongation of the NPT (1994-1995)
  • Rapporteur for the accession of Slovakia to the EU (1997-2004)
  • Chairman of the of the Conference of Delegation Chairmen (2002-2004)
  • Co-president of election observation missions in Slovakia, Ukraine and Belarus
  • Vice-president of the socialist and social democratic group (PSE) in the European Parliament responsible for communications, EU-enlargement issues, the Wider Europe and Transatlantic relations (2004-2009)
  • Member of the EP delegations for Romania. Moldova and South Eastern Europe
  • Member of the EP delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assemblee (1999-2004)

Publications

Wrote many articles and books in the Dutch language on interception, the enlargement of the EU, Europe-US relations, the role of Islam in Mediterranean politics, campaigning, the issue of the Roma. The following recent publications are available in English and can be downloaded from this website.

Travels amongst our Muslim Neighbours, with MEP Joost Lagendijk (2008)
Democracy, Populism and Minority Rights (ed), with MEP Hannes Swoboda (2008)
A World without Nuclear Weapons (ed), with MEP Hannes Swoboda (2009)
Politics of the Past (ed), with MEP Hannes Swoboda (2009)

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'Politics of the Past: The Use and Abuse of History'

Onder redactie van Jan Marinus Wiersma en Hannes Swobonda

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'Peace and Disarmament: A world without Nuclear Weapons'

Onder redactie van Jan Marinus Wiersma en Hannes Swobonda

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'Democracy, Populism and Minority Rights'

Onder redactie van Jan Marinus Wiersma en Hannes Swobonda

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'Travels among Europe's Muslim Neighbours: The Quest for Democracy'

van Jan Marinus Wiersma en Joost Lagendijk