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Jan Huitema (born 5 July 1984) is a Dutch politician and dairy farmer. He has been a member of the European Parliament for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy representing the Netherlands since July 2014. ==Career== Huitema was born as the son of a farmer in Heerenveen. He went to high school in Sneek. Huitema obtained a Bachelor's degree in Animal Sciences at Wageningen University and followed this up with a Master's degree in Animal Production Systems at the same university in 2008.〔 Huitema started working as a policy employee for Dutch member of the European Parliament (MEP) Jan Mulder in 2008 and worked for him until 2009.〔〔 He worked a further three years in the same position for Holger Krahmer, a German Free Democratic Party MEP. In 2012 he decided to return to the family farm.〔 Together with his father Huitema owns a dairy farm with 130 cows based in Makkinga.〔 He was placed sixth on the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy's list of candidates for the 2014 European Parliament elections. Huitema stated that while working for MEPs he saw numerous reports, opinions and proposals which looked great in theory but were in practice infeasible, specifically targeting new parts of the Common Agricultural Policy.〔 He campaigned the country by touring with a 1954 Fordson Dexta tractor. His slogan for entering the European Parliament was: "Brussels could use some farmers wisdom".〔 Huitema received 25,798 votes and on the basis of those preferential votes he managed to obtain the third place among the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy candidates and was thereby elected. After his election he stated it was his intention to return to the family farm every weekend to see what is going on in the Netherlands as not to lose touch with the country.〔 As of December 2014 he is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Delegation for relations with Canada. He is the first Dutch MEP in five years on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.〔 He is a substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Huitema」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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