The victory of the ' No ' vote, along with a campaign against the Bolkestein directive, earned the party some positive publicity.

In 2001, Bolkestein responded to the question raised by European MPs ( MEP ) Harlem Désir, Glyn Ford and Francis Wurtz, who asked the Commission to investigate the accusations brought forward by Révélation $, a book written by investigative journalist Denis Robert and former Clearstream member Ernest Backes, and to ensure that the 10 June 1990 directive ( 91 / 308 CE ) on control of financial establishment be applied in all member states in an effective way.

* The Bolkestein directive, aimed at creating a single market for services within the EU

Villiers coined the phrase " Polish Plumber " in a June 2005 political speech about the Bolkestein directive, referring to the perceived threat of cheap East European labour to French wages.

Green MP Gérard Onesta declared: " the Bolkestein directive had become a monster ...

Conservative MEP Philippe de Villiers also declared to Le Figaro: " The new Bolkestein directive is a lie "; " In its original form, the directive threatened social dumping for 5, 000 professions, the current version still targets 4, 000 ".

Other issues that Buffet is interested in and has spoken on are the Bolkestein Directive ( a free trade directive issued by the European Union ), energy initiatives, and ideological issues linked with stopping privatization and aiding the lower classes or working people.

In May 2005, he also asked the European Commission to create an investigation, after learning that Frits Bolkestein ( famous for the Directive on services in the internal market ) was a member of the Russian Bank Menatep's international consultative council ( owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky ) and that he had worked for the Shell British-Dutch petrol company, two firms " detaining secret accounts in Clearstream ".

Frederik " Frits " Bolkestein () ( born 4 April 1933 ) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( VVD ).

In the European Commission, Bolkestein was responsible for Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union issues.

During his studies in Amsterdam, Bolkestein was editor for the satirical student magazine Propria Cures.

Before entering Dutch politics, Bolkestein worked for the oil company Royal Dutch Shell from 1960 to 1975.

Bolkestein left Shell in 1978 and became a member of parliament for the VVD.

On 18 May 2010, Frits Bolkestein advocated for the legalization of all drugs in an article called ; " Red het land, sta drugs toe " which translates to ; " save the nation, allow drugs " in the NRC Handelsblad, a Dutch newspaper.

In “ Het Verval ” ( The Decline ), a book about Jews in the Netherlands written by Manfred Gerstenfeld, a Holocaust survivor and senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Bolkestein is quoted as having said that practicing Jews had no future in the Netherlands, due to anti-semitism among Turkish and particularly Moroccan immigrants, and that they should emigrate to the US or Israel.

Wilders worked as a speechwriter for the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie – VVD ), and later served as parliamentary assistant to party leader Frits Bolkestein from 1990 to 1998.

Bolkestein was the first Dutch politician to address the consequences of mass immigration for Dutch society, including a sharp criticism of Muslim immigrants.

The ETUC also pursues its campaign for Social Europe through direct action, such as Euro-demonstrations ( for example against the Bolkestein Services Directive ), and other campaigns.

Bolkestein was the Minister for Education, Art and Science from 1939 until 1945, and was part of the Dutch government-in-exile from 1940.

Frank's already budding literary ambitions were galvanized on 29 March 1944 when she heard a broadcast made by the exiled Dutch Minister for Education, Art and Science, Gerrit Bolkestein, calling for the preservation of " ordinary documents — a diary, letters ... simple everyday material " to create an archive for posterity as testimony to the suffering of civilians during the Nazi occupation, and on 20 May notes that she has started re-drafting her diary with future readers in mind.

The Directive on services in the internal market ( commonly referred to as the Bolkestein Directive ) is an EU law aiming at establishing a single market for services within the European Union ( EU ).

Drafted under the leadership of the former European Commissioner for the Internal Market Frits Bolkestein, it has been popularly referred to by his name.

The phrase became well known after Frits Bolkestein, the creator of the Directive, noted during a press conference that he would like to hire a Polish plumber because he finds it hard to find a good handyman for his second house in northern France.

The controversial Directive on services in the internal market ( aka " Bolkestein Directive ") was then passed in 2006.

Voorhoeve was replaced by the charismatic intellectual Frits Bolkestein.

Like many of his predecessors the VVD-leader Bolkestein remained in parliament, his political style was characterized by some as " opposition to one's own government ".

The Commission's president, José Manuel Barroso, answered that these facts " don't bring up any new question " and that it is not known " if Menatep took contact with Bolkestein while he was in his functions ".

" The free daily underlines that " in 2001, it was Bolkestein himself that announced the Commission's refusal to open up a parliamentary investigation on Clearstream ", following Harlem Désir's requests and accusations that Menatep had an " undeclared account " at Clearstream.

Frederik Bolkestein was born on 4 April 1933 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

His grandfather, Gerrit Bolkestein, was Minister of Education, Arts, and Sciences to the Dutch government-in-exile of 1939 to 1945.

In 1996, his political integrity came under heavy criticism, because it was revealed he had written a letter to the Minister of Health Els Borst, in which he asked her to help a pharmaceutical company, of which Bolkestein was member of the board of commissioners.

The Commission's president, José Manuel Barroso, answered that these facts " don't bring up any new question " and that it is not known " if Menatep took contact with Bolkestein while he was in his functions ".

" The free daily underlines that " in 2001, it was Bolkestein himself that announced the Commission's refusal to open up a parliamentary investigation on Clearstream ", following MEP Harlem Désir's requests and accusations that Menatep had an " undeclared account " at Clearstream.

According to Ronny Naftaniel, head of the Jewish organisation CIDI, this was not the first time Bolkestein has expressed this view.

Gerrit Bolkestein ( 9 October 1871, Amsterdam – 8 September 1956, The Hague ) was a Dutch politician and member of the Free-thinking Democratic League.

The Bolkestein Directive was harshly criticised by left-wing European politicians, who stated that it would lead to competition between workers in different parts of Europe — hence the expression " Polish plumber " — resulting in social dumping.

After the Dutch general election of 1998 Party leader Frits Bolkestein announced his retirement and Dijkstal was elected his successor.

Named after Frits Bolkestein, the Directive on services in the internal market aims at enabling a company from a given member-state to recruit workers in other European Union countries using the law of its home country.

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Bolkestein refused to answer any questions by the newspaper.

Bolkestein left Dutch politics in 1999 to become European Commissioner.

Former Presidents of Liberal International include Dutch politician and former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein and German politician Otto Graf Lambsdorff.

Some of the more politically sensitive items in his portfolio were the draft Community Patent regulation and the draft Directives on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions and services in the internal market, the so-called " Bolkestein Directive ", which has become the focus of heated debate.

Bolkestein attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam from 1945 to 1951, where he majored in both arts and sciences.

Bolkestein subsequently received a BSc from The London School of Economics in 1963, and an LL. M.

In 1976, Bolkestein wrote an English language play named Floris, Count of Holland, under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Niels Kobet.

Frits Bolkestein is married to Femke Boersma, a retired Dutch actress.

MEPs eventually reached a compromise on the text and the Parliament adopted it on 12 December 2006 ; 2 years after Bolkestein left office, under the Barroso Commission.