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European unification. A year later Jules Maaten became national Board Member of the Dutch Young
Liberals JOVD (1980–1984) and in 1981 joined the board of IFLRY. In 1982 he joined the executive committee of the Youth Forum of the European Communities in Brussels (a European-wide body of youth organisations), and he was on the staff of the Netherlands committee for the UN International Youth Year (1983–1985) where he dealt with such issues as unemployment and youth culture. From 1985 to 1989 he was a member of the executive committee of Liberal International. In 1987 he co-authored a book on Dutch liberalism, and he published numerous articles on political and international issues.
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Foreign Affairs Committee. During the first part of the legislature he sat on Economic and Monetary Committee. He has done legislative work on such issues as the Tobacco Directive, the introduction of the euro currency, water quality, AIDS, completion of the EU's internal market in alcohol products, international banking fees, the European Central Bank, safety of children's toys, car exhaust emissions, food safety, and genetically modified organisms and human genetics, homeopathic and pharmaceutical products, Dutch prisoners in Thailand.
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International Criminal Court, death penalty and the war in Chechnya. In 1999 he was also elected board member of the European Liberal Democratic Party. Since the end of 2001 he has been leader of the VVD-group in the European Parliament. The VVD members elected him as leader of the VVD list for the European elections of June 2004.
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