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Halbe Zijlstra (Oosterwolde, 21 januari 1969) is een Nederlands voormalig politicus van de Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD). Van 26 oktober 2017 tot 13 februari 2018 was hij minister van Buitenlandse Zaken in het kabinet-Rutte III.
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Halbe Zijlstra was born on 21 January 1969 in Oosterwolde in the Netherlands. His father was a police detective. He attended secondary education at vwo level and studied sociology at the University of Groningen, after which he worked for several companies.
Zijlstra has been a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 1 February 1994. He served as a member of the municipal council of Utrechtfrom 1998 to 2001, and again from 2003 to 2006. Zijlstra was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2006 general election, taking his seat on 30 November. In the House, he was his party's...
In 2015, Zijlstra authored an op-ed for the NRC Handelsblad daily in which he criticized the Iran nuclear deal framework as "a historical error," a view that echoed Israel’s. Following the United Kingdom's referendum on European Union membership referendumin 2016, Zijlstra noted that Britain was the biggest country in a free-market, antifederalist ...
Zijlstra resides in Wassenaar, a town just north of The Hague. He has been an active member of a carrier pigeonclub.
28 mag 2024 · Kan VVD’er Halbe Zijlstra – afgetreden als minister wegens de ‘datsja’-leugen – in het nieuwe kabinet? EW bezit appjes van Zijlstra met Shell-baas Jeroen van der Veer uit 2018, waaruit blijkt dat Zijlstra niet verkeerd zat. Redacteur Eric Vrijsen (1957) volgt voor EW sinds 1994 de Nederlandse politiek.
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13 feb 2018 · VVD’er Halbe Zijlstra stapt op als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken. Zijn positie bleek niet langer houdbaar nadat hij maandag moest toegeven te hebben geloge...
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13 feb 2018 · Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra resigned Tuesday after admitting to lying about attending a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2006.
26 mar 2022 · Voormalig minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Halbe Zijlstra - Foto: ANP. Den Haag schrikt nu wakker door de oorlog in de Oekraïne. Kamerfracties beseffen opeens wat de Russische president Vladimir Poetin in petto heeft. De dreiging van een agressief Rusland was al jarenlang bekend, maar drong niet door.
