Roelie Post (1959) is a civil servant of the European Commission since 1983.
From 1999 until 2005 she was charged to support Romania in its efforts to reform its child protection system. Due to pressure from outside and inside the EU she was no longer able to work inside the European Commission on children’s rights. As a result, the European Commission seconded her to Against Child Trafficking (ACT). This NGO was set up to park Roelie Post for some years because the adoption lobby had taken important positions in the European Commission and the European Parliament. The secondment ended on 1 August 2014.
The reintegration did not work out. She received the classical whistle-blower treatment and was ostracized. She blew the whistle at several occasions.
Despite her whistleblowing, she was fired by the European Commission in August 2018.
The Dutch Parliament unanimously adopted a motion in September 2019 requesting the Dutch government to work with European Commission’s First Vice-President Frans Timmermans towards a solution for both whistleblower and the adoption issue.
Due to non-cooperation of the European Commission, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands sent Roelie Post to the Dutch House for Whistleblowers. The House concluded end 2021 that indeed Roelie Post had blown the whistle and suggested the European Commission to review the decision to fire the whistleblower. LINK
The European Commission refused to review its position – beginning 2023.
Last option left, under the European Commission’s internal whistleblower guidelines: to address the EU Presidency. In a final administrative attempt, Roelie wrote to the Belgian EU Presidency requesting protection as whistleblower. Six months later, the final reply she got was that the Belgian EU Presidency did see how they could protect an EU civil servant Whistleblower.
The only way left now is to go to Court.