Jeroen Dijsselbloem
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Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem (born March 29, 1966 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch
Netherlands
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 politician
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 and former civil servant. As a member of the Labour Party
Labour Party (Netherlands)
The Labour Party , is a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands. Since the 2003 Dutch General Election, the PvdA has been the second largest political party in the Netherlands. The PvdA was a coalition member in the fourth Balkenende cabinet following 22 February 2007...

 (Partij van de Arbeid) he has been again an MP since November 20, 2002. Previously he was a member of the House of Representatives from March 28, 2000 to May 23, 2002. He focuses on matters of youth
Youth
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 care, special education
Special education
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 and teacher
Teacher
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s.

Dijsselbloem studied agricultural economics
Agricultural economics
Agricultural economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock — a discipline known as agronomics. Agronomics was a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. It focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil...

 at Wageningen University and Research Centre. From 1993 to 1996 he worked for the parliamentary group of the Labour Party and from 1996 to 2000 he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Fishery
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (Netherlands)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality was formerly the ministry of agriculture of the Netherlands...

. From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of the municipal council
Municipal council
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 of Wageningen
Wageningen
' is a municipality and a historical town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It is famous for Wageningen University, which specializes in life sciences. The city has 37,414 inhabitants , of which many thousands are students...

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House of Representatives biography
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