24 Facts About Thijs Reuten

Thijs Reuten then served for two terms as a district alderman in Amsterdam-Oost with a focus on housing and the economy.

Thijs Reuten was appointed to the European Parliament in April 2021 after the resignation of Kati Piri, and he was re-elected in June 2024.

Thijs Reuten's father, Joost, was an Augustinian priest at the Salvatorkerk in Amsterdam-Noord until he married Reuten's mother, Simona, whose parents had immigrated to the Netherlands from Italy, in 1972.

Thijs Reuten studied political science at the University of Amsterdam followed by a master's in international relations.

Thijs Reuten was his party's fifteenth candidate in Amsterdam in the March 2002 municipal elections, but he did not win a seat.

Thijs Reuten's focus in the council was on finances and housing in the period after the national government had asked Amsterdam to construct 50,000 new housing units between 2010 and 2030.

Thijs Reuten was re-elected in 2006, being placed sixth on the party list.

Thijs Reuten kept working for Timmermans until the end of his term in 2010.

Thijs Reuten joined the new five-member executive committee of the borough of Amsterdam-Oost on 23 November 2010 as a district alderman specialized in housing, major projects, and spatial planning.

Thijs Reuten was the Labour Party's lead candidate in Oost in the 2014 municipal elections.

Thijs Reuten remained part of the executive committee, which shrank to three members, after the election and became responsible for construction, housing, the economy, sports, and diversity.

Thijs Reuten subsequently worked as an independent urban development consultant until he took a job at the Global Reporting Initiative, which creates standards for sustainability reporting, as head of policy in April 2020.

Thijs Reuten again appeared on the ballot in the 2019 European Parliament election in the Netherlands as the Labour Party's eighth candidate and received 1,222 preference votes.

Thijs Reuten was not elected, as his party won six seats.

Thijs Reuten was appointed to the European Parliament following the election of MEP Kati Piri to the Dutch House of Representatives in March 2021.

Thijs Reuten became the Labour Party's spokesperson for foreign affairs, justice, and freedoms, and he is on the following committees and delegations:.

Thijs Reuten served as the rapporteur of the European Parliament in the negotiations with the European Council that led to an agreement in late 2022 to suspend visa requirements for Kosovars visiting the European Union for a maximum of 90 days.

In early 2023, Thijs Reuten was among a number of people and organizations that were sanctioned by the Iranian government for supporting and encouraging terrorism.

Thijs Reuten had proposed to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

The European Parliament voted in favor of a resolution co-filed by Thijs Reuten to condemn Hungary's planned presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months in 2024.

The party won a plurality of eight seats, but Thijs Reuten was not elected as three candidates lower on the list met the preference vote threshold.

Thijs Reuten did keep his seat in the European Parliament due to Hedy d'Ancona declining hers.

Thijs Reuten has since been spokesperson for foreign affairs, defense, security, enlargement, and constitutional affairs.

Thijs Reuten's younger sister, Thekla Reuten is an actress, while economist and Socialist Party politician Geert Reuten and actress Rosa Reuten are his uncle and cousin, respectively.