Annemie Turtelboom


Annemie Turtelboom is a Belgian politician and a member of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats.
She was Minister of migration and asylum policy in the Leterme I Government. She became Belgium's minister of the interior in the Van Rompuy I Government on 17 July 2009, and retained that office in the Leterme II Government, which took office on 24 November 2009. Turtelboom served as Minister of Justice in the Di Rupo Government. Since 25 July 2014 Turtelboom serves as Flemish minister of Finance, Budget and Energy in the Bourgeois Government. On 29 April 2016 she resigned from her function as minister in the Flemish government, in order to take up the position of Belgian member of the European Court of Auditors.