Pieter Blaisse
 Pieter Blaisse    (diplomat, politician, businessman) | |
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| Born | 24 April 1911 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 1 August 1990 (Age 79) Den Haag, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Netherlands |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam, Leibniz University Hannover |
| Party | Catholic People's Party |
Dutch politician who attended 6 Bilderberg meetings. He was mainly active in the field of foreign trade and Europa integration.
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Pieter Alfnos Blaisse was a Dutch civil servant, politician and administrator who attended 6 Bilderberg meetings. He was mainly active in the field of foreign trade and Europa integration.
==Education After completing gymnasium at Sint Ignatius College, he went on to study law at the Municipal University of Amsterdam (1929 - 1934) and economics at the Technischer Hochschule Hannover (1934 - 1935).
Career
He worked successively as executive secretary at a textile factory (1934-1935) and Philips' light bulb factories (1935 - 1940), after which he went to work as secretary at Hoofdgroep Industrie (1940-1942).
He was briefly a member of the Dutch people's movement (1945-1946). After the war he briefly became deputy director at the Centraal Plan Bureau and a member of the temporary city council of The Hague. Then he went to work as an administrator at the Directorate of Rehabilitation and Facilities at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (1946 - 1952). Blaisse was involved in the Preparatory Commission for the establishment of the United Nations (1945) and (together with Marga Klompé) for the preparation of the European statute 1953 (1952/1953) which paved the way for the establishment of the European Economic Community.[1]
In 1952, he became a member of the Second Chamber for the Catholic People's Party (KVP). Apart from a short break from 1956, he would remain a member until 1967. He was a prominent member, and some times referred to as the secretary of state and was very good friends with Joseph Luns. He was in 1959 referred to as deputy prime minister in charge of Foreign Trade.
In the chamber, he was spokesman for trade policy, economic and European affairs, among other things. He was chairman of the Standing Committee of the House of Representatives on trade policy (1956-1963), the committee of preparation for the bill approving treaties establishing the EEC and Euratom (1957), the special committee on the draft bill approving the convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and development and revising the Treaty on European Economic Co-operation (1961), the Standing Committee of the House of Representatives on Nuclear Energy (1963-1967) and the special committee for the draft Continental Shelf Mining Act (1964/1965). He was also vice-chairman of the Standing House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs (1966-1967).
Blaisse has represented the Netherlands in the European Community (EEC), the European Coal and Steel Community (1952 - 1958), and was in the European Parliament (1958-1967). There, from 1961 to 1967, he was Vice-President of parliament and chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the internal market.
In December 1966, to his surprise, Blaisse was not nominated by the KVP for the House of Representatives and in 1967 he was therefore not re-elected. He then went to work as a legal and economic consultant in The Hague, and on 1 January 1969 he was appointed special professor of legal and economic aspects of international organizations and group structure at the Delft University of Technology, where he would remain until 1980.
From 1966 he also held various supervisory positions at Dutch and foreign companies, such as Elsevier, AMRO Bank and Aegon.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1958 | 13 September 1958 | 15 September 1958 | United Kingdom Buxton UK | The 7th Bilderberg and the first one in the UK. 72 guests |
| Bilderberg/1960 | 28 May 1960 | 29 May 1960 | Switzerland Bürgenstock | The 9th such meeting and the first one in Switzerland. 61 participants + 4 "in attendance". The meeting report contains a press statement, 4 sentences long. |
| Bilderberg/1961 | 21 April 1961 | 23 April 1961 | Canada Quebec St-Castin | The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe. |
| Bilderberg/1962 | 18 May 1962 | 20 May 1962 | Sweden Saltsjöbaden | The 11th Bilderberg meeting and the first one in Sweden. |
| Bilderberg/1963 | 29 March 1963 | 31 March 1963 | France Cannes Hotel Martinez | The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France. |
| Bilderberg/1965 | 2 April 1965 | 4 April 1965 | Italy Villa d'Este | The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy |
References
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