Tinne Van der Straeten
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| Born | 1 April 1978 | |||||||||
| Nationality | Belgian | |||||||||
| Alma mater | • Ghent University • Vrije Universiteit Brussel | |||||||||
| Party | Greens (Belgium) | |||||||||
Green Belgian Minister of Energy since Autumn 2020, attended the 2022 Bilderberg. Extended life-span of nuclear power plants.
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Tinne Van der Straeten is a Belgian Green politician who attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
In 2000, Van der Straeten obtained a degree in African Studies at Ghent University. Subsequently, she started working as a researcher at Université catholique de Louvain. After this, she went to KU Leuven, where she researched labour discrimination. In 2008, she obtained a law degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Career
In the 2007 elections, Van der Straeten was elected a representative in the Belgian federal parliament for the first time. Three years later, in the 2010 elections, she wasn't re-elected. In 2018, Van der Straeten re-entered the political foreground. She became an alderman of Public Works in Koekelberg[1] and a candidate for the 2019 federal elections on the Ecolo list in Brussels where she was re-elected as a representative.
Following the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian War, Van der Straeten led her party's policy shift of extending the life-span of Belgium's remaining nuclear power plants.[2] By July 2022, she reached an agreement in principle with energy provider Engie to extend the lifespan of two nuclear reactors by 10 years.[3]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2022 | 2 June 2022 | 5 June 2022 | US Washington DC Mandarin Oriental Hotel | The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19 |
| Munich Security Conference/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
References
- ↑ https://www.bruzz.be/brussel-kiest/brussel-kiest-koekelberg/tinne-van-der-straeten-groen-wordt-schepen-koekelberg-2018
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/world/belgian-greens-make-u-turn-consider-nuclear-plants-extension-2022-03-07/
- ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-reaches-tentative-deal-with-engie-on-extension-of-nuclear-reactors/
