Frans Timmermans

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Person.png Frans Timmermans   IMDB TwitterRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician, diplomat)
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BornFranciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria Timmermans
6 May 1961
Maastricht, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materSaint George's English School, Bernardinuscollege, Radboud University, Nancy 2 University
ReligionCatholic
Children4
SpouseIrene Timmermans
Member ofKnights of Malta
PartyDemocrats 66, Labour Party (Netherlands)
Vice-President of the European Commission

Employment.png European Commissioner for Climate Action Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
1 December 2019 - 22 August 2023
Succeeded byMaroš Šefčovič

Employment.png Netherlands/Minister/Foreign Affairs

In office
5 November 2012 - 17 October 2014

Employment.png Netherlands/State Secretary/European Affairs

In office
22 February 2007 - 23 February 2010

Employment.png Member of the Dutch House of Representatives

In office
6 May 1998 - 22 February 2007

Employment.png Member of the Dutch House of Representatives

In office
9 June 2010 - 5 November 2012

Employment.png Private Secretary

In office
1995 - 1998
EmployerOSCE
Appointed byMax van der Stoel

Franciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria "Frans" Timmermans is a Dutch "left wing" politician who moved up into the EU apparatus. He is a member of the Knights of Malta. He attended the 2008 Bilderberg meeting.

Timmermans was placed in a central position, as Dutch foreign minister, at the time of the shoot-down of passenger flight Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, and played an important role in the following propaganda campaign[1]

As EU commissioner, Timmermans played a part of the implementation of the EU Building Directive[2], a Great Reset scheme to make home ownership unaffordable for more people by demanding expensive renovations of over 200 million buildings in the EU, under the pretext of energy efficiency.

Background

His father was a diplomat and Frans Timmermans spent most of his childhood in Brussels and Rome.[3]

In 1986, he was conscripted in the Royal Netherlands Army as a private first class for the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service as a Russian interpreter. In many countries, military interpreting is a specialized elite education that leads to close contacts with the spook agencies during their further careers.[4]

On 1 July 1990, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Dutch Embassy in Moscow, Russia. On 1 September 1993, he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Deputy Head of the Bureau for European Development Cooperation. On 15 March 1994, he left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, becoming Assistant to European Commissioner Hans van den Broek. Timmermans moved from this post a year later on 15 March 1995, to become Senior Advisor and Private Secretary to Max van der Stoel, the High Commissioner for National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

He is a Catholic and member of the intelligence-connected Knights of Malta.

National political career

In 1998 Timmermans was elected a Member of the House of Representatives for the Labour Party, where he became Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Affairs. Timmermans was part of the Convention on the Future of Europe, a body established to produce a draft constitution for the European Union, from March 2002 until July 2003. Both the Dutch and French voters rejected the constitution proposal in referendums, despite an intense propaganda campaign from the establishment[5] The results were promptly ignored with the signing of the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon.

In 2006 Timmermans became Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and was responsible for the co-ordination of government policy towards the European Union. One of the topics in his portfolio was the Treaty of Lisbon, the successor to the European constitution rejected by referendums in the Netherlands and France in 2005. A major theme of his time as Undersecretary for European Affairs was to increase support for European integration.

After a 2012 election, he became foreign minister. This was a central position during the time of the shoot-down of passenger flight Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 and the following propaganda campaign[6][7][8]

Career

As Vice-President of the European Commission, opined on "Which world do we want after COVID-19?"[9] and on how to ensure that "all of Europe gets vaccines".[10]

Opinions

“They are now being disappointed. Look at what the divisiveness of Brexit has done to the UK. Today, the UK looks like Game of Thrones on steroids.”
Frans Timmermans (16 May 2019)  [11]

 

An appointment by Frans Timmermans

AppointeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Diederik SamsomHead of CabinetNovember 2019February 2024Bilderberger

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20085 June 20088 June 2008US
Virginia
Chantilly
The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Brussels Forum/200620062006Belgium
Brussels
Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/201723 March 201725 March 2017Belgium
Brussels
Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The overarching theme was "‘End of Complacency – Era of Action?"
Munich Security Conference/20131 February 20133 February 2013Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201431 January 20142 February 2014Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201717 February 201719 February 2017Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201812 February 201814 February 2018Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 54th Munich Security Conference
WEF/Annual Meeting/201521 January 201524 January 2015World Economic Forum
Switzerland
Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201620 January 201623 January 2016World Economic Forum
Switzerland
Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201717 January 201720 January 2017World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/201922 January 201925 January 2019World Economic Forum
Switzerland
"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland
This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
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