Jules Maaten (born 17 April 1961) is a Dutch politician and since August 2022 Regional Director of the European Dialogue office in Brussels of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF).
[1] From 1999 to 2009 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie), Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
He has done legislative work on such issues as the Tobacco Directive, the introduction of the euro currency, water quality, AIDS, completion of the EU's internal market in alcohol products, international banking fees, the European Central Bank, safety of children's toys, car exhaust emissions, food safety, and genetically modified organisms and human genetics, homeopathic and pharmaceutical products, Dutch prisoners in Thailand.
He has been active on EU foreign policy issues including human rights, shipments of nuclear material, East Timor, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, the International Criminal Court, death penalty and the war in Chechnya.
Prior to that (1986–1991) he was a municipal councillor in his hometown Amstelveen, near Amsterdam, where he dealt with public finance education and social affairs.