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Bert-Jan Ruissen
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Bert-Jan Ruissen

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Politician
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Place of birth
Kruiningen, Netherlands
Age
52 years
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Bert-Jan Ruissen (born 22 March 1972) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands. He is a member of the Reformed Political Party (SGP), part of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

Ruissen studied plant science at Wageningen University and Research in The Netherlands. In 1995 he became assistant to MEP Leen van der Waal in the European Parliament. Later he worked as advisor for EU Agriculture Policy at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.

Political career

Ruissen was elected to the local council of Krimpen aan den IJssel from 2006 until 2019. In the 2019 European Parliament election he was elected from the second place of a common list of Christian Union – Reformed Political Party. He became full Member of the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, as well substitute Member of the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries and European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs. He also serves as first vice chair of the European Parliament delegation for the relations with Israel.

In his maiden speech in the European Parliament, in September 2019, he spoke out against patents on plant characteristics.

As a member of the European Parliament, he voted in 2019 against the resolution to denounce the LGBT-free zones in Poland.

Personal life

Bert-Jan Ruissen is married and has four children.

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