The Christian Union is a Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The CU is a centrist party,maintaining more progressive stances on economic,immigration and environmental issues while holding more socially conservative positions on issues such as abortion and euthanasia. The party describes itself as "social Christian".
Arie Slob is a Dutch politician and history teacher who served as Minister for Primary and Secondary Education and Media in the Third Rutte cabinet from 26 October 2017 until 10 January 2022.
Emma Eleonora (Esmé) Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink is a former Dutch politician. As a member of the ChristianUnion (ChristenUnie) she was an MP from 1 March 2007 to 19 September 2012. She focused on matters of the European Union,public health,welfare,sports,spatial planning and natural environment.
Simone Jeanet Kennedy-Doornbos is a Dutch politician of the Christian Union. Raised in a Reformed family in 't Harde,Kennedy studied medical biology at the University of Amsterdam. As a student,she ran for the municipal council of Amsterdam in 1991 as the lead candidate of the Reformed Political League (GPV) –a precursor of the Christian Union. She married historian James Kennedy in 1994,and the couple moved to Iowa that same year.
Elbert Dijkgraaf is a Dutch economist and politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP). He is professor at the Erasmus School of Economics where he holds the chair "Empirical economics of the public sector". He also is fellow of the Tinbergen Institute.
Yde Johan "Eddy" van Hijum is a Dutch politician who has served as the minister of social affairs and employment and third deputy prime minister in the Schoof cabinet since 2024.
Pieter Herman Omtzigt is a Dutch politician who has served as a member of the House of Representatives since 2003 apart from a short interruption between June and October 2010. He was member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA),but left in 2021 and continued as independent. In August 2023,he founded a new party called New Social Contract,its name taken from his 2021 manifesto. Three months later,his party won 20 out of 150 seats in the 2023 Dutch general election.
Gert Jan Maarten "Gert-Jan" Segers is a Dutch politician who was Leader of the Christian Union between 2015 and 2023. He has been a member of the House of Representatives between 2012 and 2023 and was parliamentary leader between 2015 and 2023.
Reinette Joanne Klever is a Dutch politician,asset manager and broadcaster. She has served as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development in the Schoof cabinet since July 2024,on behalf of the Party for Freedom (PVV).
Leendert Arent-Willem de Lange is a Dutch politician. He has been mayor of Wassenaar since 18 July 2019. Previously he was a member of the House of Representatives for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy,serving from 31 March 2015 to 23 March 2017 and once again from 31 October 2017 to 3 July 2019. De Lange was alderman in Noordwijk between 2006 and 2013 and in Wassenaar between 2013 and 2014 where he also served as deputy mayor.
Mirjam Hannah Bikker is a Dutch politician who has served as the leader of the Christian Union since January 2023. She is also a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. She was previously elected to the municipal council of Utrecht in 2006 and Senate in 2015.
Hugo Mattheüs de Jonge is a Dutch politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA),he was elected to its leadership in 2020 for the 2021 Dutch general election. He withdrew later that year,citing an impossibility to combine his position as Health Minister in charge of the COVID-19 pandemic efforts with his party leadership. He later served in the fourth Rutte cabinet as Minister for Housing and Spatial Planning from 2022 until 2024 and as Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations from 2023 until 2024.
Hendrikus Wilhelmus Maria "Dick" Schoof is the prime minister of the Netherlands in the Schoof Cabinet since 2 July 2024.
Christiaan Anton Jansen is a Dutch politician for the right-wing populist Party for Freedom (PVV). He has been serving as State Secretary for Public Transport and the Environment since July 2024,and he previously was a member of the House of Representatives between November 2019 and March 2021.
Don Guno Maria Ceder is a Dutch lawyer and politician,serving as a member of House of Representatives since the 2021 general election.
Pieter Aren Grinwis is a Dutch politician,who has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives on behalf of the Christian Union since March 2021. He previously served as a municipal councilor in The Hague and assisted the party in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Folkert Lútsen Idsinga is a Dutch tax lawyer and politician,who has served as State Secretary for Tax Affairs and the Tax Administration since July 2024. He was a partner at Baker McKenzie,and he was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2021 general election on behalf of the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Idsinga left the House in September 2023 to switch to New Social Contract (NSC),and he was re-elected in 2023.
A process of cabinet formation took place following the Dutch general election of 22 November 2023,leading to the Schoof cabinet on 2 July 2024. The coalition consisted of the Party for Freedom (PVV),the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD),New Social Contract (NSC) and the Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB). Despite ambitions to form an extra-parliamentary cabinet,the cabinet is generally considered a parliamentary cabinet.
Caspar Cornelis Johannes Veldkamp is a Dutch politician and former diplomat currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Veldkamp previously served as a member of the House of Representatives for the New Social Contract party from December 2023 to July 2024.
Dirk Stefan Beljaarts is a Dutch hotelier,lobbyist,and politician of the right-wing populist Party for Freedom (PVV).
