| Eimert van Middelkoop | |
| Office: | Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration |
| Term Start: | 23 February 2010 |
| Term End: | 14 October 2010 |
| Primeminister: | Jan Peter Balkenende |
| Predecessor: | Eberhard van der Laan |
| Successor: | Office discontinued |
| Office1: | Minister of Defence |
| Term Start1: | 22 February 2007 |
| Term End1: | 14 October 2010 |
| Primeminister1: | Jan Peter Balkenende |
| Predecessor1: | Henk Kamp |
| Successor1: | Hans Hillen |
| Office2: | Member of the Senate |
| Term Start2: | 10 June 2003 |
| Term End2: | 22 February 2007 |
| Office3: | Leader of the Reformed Political League |
| Term Start3: | 14 February 2001 |
| Term End3: | 13 March 2001 |
| Predecessor3: | Gert Schutte |
| Successor3: | Office discontinued |
| Office4: | Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives |
| Term Start4: | 14 February 2001 |
| Term End4: | 13 March 2001 |
| Predecessor4: | Gert Schutte |
| Successor4: | Office discontinued |
| Parliamentarygroup4: | Reformed Political League |
| Office5: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Term Start5: | 14 May 1989 |
| Term End5: | 23 May 2002 |
| Birthname: | Eimert van Middelkoop |
| Birth Date: | 1949 2, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands |
| Party: | Christian Union (from 2002) |
| Otherparty: | Reformed Political League (1973–2002) |
| Children: | 3 sons and 1 daughter |
| Residence: | Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands |
| Alma Mater: | Erasmus University Rotterdam (Bachelor of Social Science) |
Eimert van Middelkoop (pronounced as /nl/; born 14 February 1949) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Union (CU) party and teacher. He is the chairman of the Institute for Multiparty Democracy since 20 January 2018.
After high school, van Middelkoop attended what is now Erasmus University, earning a B.A. in Sociology in 1971. In 1971 and 1972, he was a teacher at the Reformed Social Academy in Zwolle. He was exempt from military draft for being indispensable as staff member of the Reformed Political League in the House of Representatives.[1]
Van Middelkoop became a member of the House of Representatives in 1989, while affiliated with the Reformed Political League. Since 2000, he has been aligned with the Christian Union, which was the product of a fusion of the Reformatory Political Federation (RPF) and the Reformatory Political Federation (GPV). He specialised in foreign and military affairs, prepared the inquiry by the House of Representatives into the role of the Netherlands in the fall of Srebrenica. He lost his seat in the House of Representatives in the 2002 election.
From 2003 until 2007, van Middelkoop was a member of the Senate. In the 2006 elections, the Christian Union party doubled its seats and joined the fourth Balkenende cabinet. Van Middelkoop became Minister of Defence in 2007.
In September 2008, he told the Dutch opinion magazine, Vrij Nederland, that he would have been very unhappy to have joined the army. Because of this and other remarks, he received criticism from military labour unions, who said that Van Middelkoop had lost his credibility.[2] [3]
| Ghazi Mir Bacha Khan Medal | Afghanistan | 2010 | |||
| Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau | Netherlands | 3 December 2010 | Elevated from Knight (23 May 2002) |
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