Piet Dankert

Piet Dankert   (politician)
1963
Born	8 January 1934 Netherlands
Died	21 June 2003 (Age 69) Perpignan, France
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Party	Labour Party (Netherlands)
Dutch politician who attended the 1967 Bilderberg. President of the European Parliament 1982-84  President of the European Parliament  In office 1982 - 1984  Member of the European Parliament In office 19 July 1994 - 20 July 1999 Preceded by Maxime Verhagen Succeeded by François Hollande, François Hollande, Vasco Graça Moura, António José Seguro, Jorge Moreira da Silva, Mário Soares, Philippe de Villiers, Graham Watson  Member of the European Parliament In office 17 July 1979 - 7 November 1989 Preceded by Schelto Patijn

Piet Dankert was a Dutch politician who attended the 1967 Bilderberg meeting.

Education

He studied history at the Free University of Amsterdam.

Career

He first worked in education, before he was elected to the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament in 1968 at the age of 34. There he became the political spokesman of his party for foreign policy and defense policy affairs. In addition, he also pursued European policy and advocated increasing cooperation between the EC/EU states.

At the end of the 1970s, Dankert changed his field of activity from the Dutch Second Chamber to the European Parliament, whose fate he helped to determine as president in the years 1982 to 1984. In the third cabinet of Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers (1989-1994), he held the post of State Secretary for European Affairs. He then returned to the European Parliament as a member of Parliament, a post he retained until the end of his career in 1999.

Dankert distinguished himself there mainly in budget debates and worked as a member of various parliamentary committees of the Council of Europe, NATO and the WEU. In his last years as a Member of the European Parliament of his party, he was particularly committed to Turkey's future accession to the EU.

Dankert was married to his wife Paulette since 1962, together they had a son and two daughters. On June 21, 2003, Piet Dankert died at the age of 69 in France, his second home.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1967	31 March 1967	2 April 1967	St John's College (Cambridge) UK England	Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge)

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