Hanja Maij-Weggen

Johanna Rika Hermanna ( Hanja ) Maij -Weggen ( born December 29, 1943 in Klazienaveen, municipality of Emmen ) is a Dutch politician (CDA ).

Maij -Weggen worked as a nurse and social education, and later as a secondary school teacher and college lecturer. They first belonged to the ARP and moved in 1980 on the CDA. She was from 1979 to 1989 and from 1994 to 2003 of the European Parliament. From 1989 to 1994 she was Minister of Transport and Waterways in the Cabinet Lubbers III. From 2003 until her retirement in 2009 she was a representative of the Queen in the province of Noord- Brabant.

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