Femke Zeedijk
Dutch politician
Femke Annechien Zeedijk-Raeven (pronounced [ˈfɛmkə ˈzeːdɛik ˈraːvə(n)]; née Raeven; born 7 February 1974) is a Dutch politician of the New Social Contract (NSC) party.
Early life and career
Zeedijk was born in 1974 in Utrecht, and she studied mathematics at Utrecht University from 1990 to 1995, graduating with a Master of Arts degree. Between 1996 and 2013, she worked for professional services network PwC, airline KLM, an insurance company, and Rabobank. Zeedijk was an active member of the social liberal Democrats 66 (D66) party, serving as a temporary member of the Geldrop-Mierlo Municipal Council in 2013. She started working the following year for ASML, where she eventually became a strategic advisor.
House of Representatives
Zeedijk switched to NSC, when it was founded in 2023, and she was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2023 general election. Her focus was on economic affairs, international trade, and development cooperation. During debates on the 2025 budget, Zeedijk argued that the decoupling of the development aid budget from the size of the Dutch economy had not been agreed to by coalition parties. However, she refused to support a motion of the opposition to restore the coupling, opting instead to renegotiate the issue ahead of the upcoming Spring Memorandum, in which budget revisions are included.
On 15 November 2024, State Secretary Nora Achahbar (NSC) resigned, citing "polarizing interactions during the past weeks" in response to Amsterdam attacks targeting supporters of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Media outlets reported offensive, radical, and potentially racist remarks made during a Council of Ministers meeting, with State Secretary Jurgen Nobel stating that a significant portion of Islamic youth did not endorse Dutch norms and values, referring to the perpetrators of the attacks.
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