Frans Timmermans

Frans Timmermans     (politician, diplomat)
Born	Franciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria Timmermans 6 May 1961 Maastricht, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	Saint George's English School, Bernardinuscollege, Radboud University, Nancy 2 University
Religion	Catholic
Children	4
Spouse	Irene Timmermans
Member of	Knights of Malta
Party	Democrats 66, Labour Party (Netherlands)
Vice-President of the European Commission  Executive Vice President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal In office 1 December 2019 - 22 August 2023  European Commissioner for Climate Action  In office 1 December 2019 - 22 August 2023 Succeeded by Maroš Šefčovič  Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age In office 1 December 2019 - 22 August 2023 With Margrethe Vestager & Valdis Dombrovskis  Vice-President of the European Commission  In office 1 November 2014 - 30 November 2019 Boss Jean-Claude Juncker Preceded by Catherine Ashton Succeeded by Josep Borrell, Margaritis Schinas  European Commissioner for Better Regulation Inter-Institutional Relations Rule of Law and Charter of Fundamental Rights In office 1 November 2014 - 2019  Netherlands/Minister/Foreign Affairs In office 5 November 2012 - 17 October 2014  Netherlands/State Secretary/European Affairs In office 22 February 2007 - 23 February 2010  Member of the Dutch House of Representatives In office 6 May 1998 - 22 February 2007  Member of the Dutch House of Representatives In office 9 June 2010 - 5 November 2012  Private Secretary In office 1995 - 1998 Employer OSCE Appointed by Max van der Stoel

Franciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria "Frans" Timmermans is a Dutch "left wing" politician who moved up into the EU apparatus, before going back to national politics in 2023. 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

As EU commissioner, Timmermans played a part of the implementation of the EU Building Directive, 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.

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.

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 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

EU career

From 2014 until 2023 Timmermans held a number of positions in the European Commission, including Commissioner for the "European Green Deal" and Commissioner for Climate Action.

In December 2021, Timmermans supported the introduction of "new genomic techniques" in agriculture, stating NGTs will "clearly be part of those actions". On 5 July 2023, the European Commission has adopted a proposal for a new Regulation on plants produced by certain new genomic techniques. In 2018 European Court of Justice ruled that organisms obtained by mutagenesis plant breeding techniques are GMOs and should fall under the GMO Directive.

As part of Timmermans' "Green New Deal", the Commission introduced a Farm2Fork initiative designed to cripple European agriculture under the pretext of combating "climate change". It sets a series of radical goals to meet by 2030 including reducing synthetic pesticide use and livestock antibiotics by 50%, increasing land for organic food production to 25% and cut fertiliser use by 20%. The greenhouse gas reduction targets for the agricultural sector will be increased by 50% before 2030.

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

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) 

 

An appointment by Frans Timmermans

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Diederik Samsom	Head of Cabinet	November 2019	February 2024	Bilderberger

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2008	5 June 2008	8 June 2008	US Virginia Chantilly	The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Brussels Forum/2006	2006	2006	Belgium 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/2017	23 March 2017	25 March 2017	Belgium 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/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2014	31 January 2014	2 February 2014	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015	21 January 2015	24 January 2015	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World 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/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	World 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/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World 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/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	World 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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