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Jurgen Norbert Jeroen Nobel (; born 7 December 1988) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He has served as State Secretary for Participation and Integration in the Schoof cabinet since July 2024.
In 2019, he was appointed wethouder, responsible for finances, housing, and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, which is located in Haarlemmermeer, and he later served as deputy mayor. In the discussion about noise and environmental pollution, Nobel highlighted the airport's economic benefits, and he argued that reducing flights should not be an end in itself. Besides, he successfully opposed the construction of a new runway in Rijsenhout. Next to his role as alderman, Nobel was chair of the VVD's North Holland chapter between 2022 and 2024.
In response to the November 2024 Amsterdam riots, in which supporters of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. were targeted, Nobel said that the Netherlands had a major integration problem and that a significant portion of Islamic youth did not endorse Dutch norms and values. Prime Minister Dick Schoof held a specific group of young people with a migration background responsible for the attacks. An alliance of mosques filed a criminal complaint against Nobel for group insult, inciting hate, and discrimination in the performance of a duty, arguing that the religious beliefs of the perpetrators were unknown. When State Secretary Nora Achahbar resigned as a result of "polarizing interactions", she cited Nobel's remarks. Nobel later clarified that he did not intend to make generalizations about population groups. Nobel presented an action plan concerning integration in February 2025 that included measures to tackle foreign interference in migrant communities, to decrease their dependency on social welfare, and to reduce practices such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage.
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