Frederik "Frits" Bolkestein ( Frits Bolkestein (help·info)) (born 4 April 1933) is a Dutch politician and former European Commissioner.
He was the leader of the market liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. In the European Commission, Bolkestein was responsible for Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union issues. Some of the more politically sensitive items in his portfolio were the draft Community Patent regulation and the draft Di...
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Frederik "Frits" Bolkestein ( Frits Bolkestein (help·info)) (born 4 April 1933) is a Dutch politician and former European Commissioner.
He was the leader of the market liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. In the European Commission, Bolkestein was responsible for Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union issues. 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.
Frederik Bolkestein, commonly known as Frits Bolkestein, was born on 4 April 1933 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His father was president of the Court in Amsterdam. His grandfather, Gerrit Bolkestein, was Minister of Education, Arts, and Sciences from 1939 to 1945. Bolkesteins mother was of Indo heritage which by some is mentioned as reason for his anti...
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