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Tineke Strik
Tineke Strik in 2024
Member of the European Parliament for theNetherlands
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Member of the Senate of the Netherlands
In office 12 June 2007 – 1 July 2019
Personal details
Born	Martina Hermina Antonia Strik (1961-09-28)28 September 1961 (age 64) Alphen,Netherlands
Party	GreenLeft
Residence	Wageningen

Martina Hermina Antonia "Tineke" Strik (born 28 September 1961) is a Dutch politician. From 2007 to 2019 she was a member of theSenate forGreenLeft. Since 2019 she is a member of theEuropean Parliament sitting with theGreens–European Free Alliance group.

Between 1979 and 1983, Strik studied social work at the social academy "Den Elzent" inEindhoven. In the meanwhile, she worked at theKindertelefoon, a phone help line for children. Between 1981 and 1985, she worked as a youth worker at the Cultural Youth Centre "De Effenaar" in Eindhoven. She continued to studyinternational law at theRadboud University between 1985 and 1991, she also studiedTurkish between 1989 and 1991. Between 1990 and 1993, she worked a legal consultant at the Youth Advice Centre inAmsterdam. Between 1994 and 1995, she briefly studied law at the Radbouw University. She also took courses at theRed Cross,Clingendael, and theUniversity Utrecht where she studiedwar law,European law andadministrative law. Between 1993 and 1996, she worked at Vluchtelingenwerk, an organization that helpsrefugees, as a legal consultant. She then worked as a judicial secretary at the court ofZwolle, working for the chamber of refugees. In 1997, she made the switch to politics: she began to work for theGreenLeft parliamentary party as a policy advisor on justice. Between 2001 and 2002, she worked as policy coordinator for theMinistry of Justice.

Between 2002 and 2006, she wasalderman for social affairs, including youth, culture and minorities inWageningen. In 2004, she also became researcher-PhD-candidate at the Centre for Migration law of the Radboud University. She had several positions within the GreenLeft. She was member of the Strategic Council, a council of local and national GreenLeft politicians on the party's course. In 2005–2006, she was a member of the committee which wrote GreenLeft'selection program. She also was suppleant of the congress of local government of theCouncil of Europe and observer at the 2005 local elections in thePalestinian National Authority.

In 2007, she was elected into theSenate.^[1] In 2008, she announced that she was one of five candidates for the position oftop candidate for theGreenLeft in the 2009European Parliament election, but she did not become a member of that body until 2019. Strik wasre-elected in June 2024 as the fifth candidate on the sharedGroenLinks–PvdA list, which received aplurality in the Netherlands of eight seats.^[2] Her focus has since been onrule of law, democracy, asylum, and migration.^[3]

Strik was born on a farm in a family of six children inDodewaard.

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