The popular Dutch MEP was damaged by her involvement in the botched effort to recruit the 5Star Movement into ALDE (which would have seen in ‘t Veld promoted had it succeed in catapulting Guy Verhofstadt into the presidency).
Political group:
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE)
Country:
The?Netherlands
Position:
ALDE group vice president?
Trajectory
:
Down 9 places from 2016
Age:
53
Perspective:
Interventionist Liberal
Key interests:?
Chair of the Dutch public broadcaster Humanist Broadcasting
Memorable fact:?
Recently wrote that she believes “the hegemony of the West is finally at an end”
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