Ministry of Economic Affairs
In 1993 I started working in the ministry of Economic Affairs, in the department
of Industry and Services. I dealt mainly with industrial policy for the energy sector.
One of the topics was the upcoming solar panel industry. We even tried to install
a solar system on one of the buildings of the ministry (see story).
At the time there were also some big companies like Fokker, Hoogovens and RDM in
trouble and I got involved in the RDM dossier (submarines). These were the last
days of old style industrial policy, where the government tried to rescue industries
for reasons of employment.
There was also a lot of fun, the study trips with Jong Economic Affairs, soccer games
at the EZ resort Duingeest and the nice people in the unit for machine building where
I was located (see pictures below).