Philip Claeys
Appearance
Philip Claeys | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 16 June 2003 – 30 June 2014 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Ghent, Belgium | 24 May 1965
Political party | Vlaams Belang (since 2004) Vlaams Blok (before 2004) |
Occupation | Politician |
Philip Claeys (Dutch: [ˈfilɪp ˈklaːis]; born 24 May 1965) is a Belgian Flanders-based politician for the Vlaams Belang.
Political career
[edit]Claeys was a Member of the European Parliament from 2003 to 2014.[1] He participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007[2] and in 2012.[3] Since late 2010, he was a board member of the eurosceptic party European Alliance for Freedom, which was dissolved in 2016.[4] From 2017 to 2019 he was the secretary-general of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group,[5] and since 2019 he has been secretary of the Identity and Democracy group.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Philip CLAEYS". European Parliament. 24 May 1965. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ^ Hannus, Martha (2012). Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön (PDF) (in Swedish). Expo Research. pp. 67, 83. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2024.
- ^ Lazaridis, Gabriella; Campani, Giovanna (2016). Understanding the Populist Shift: Othering in a Europe in Crisis. Taylor & Francis. p. 91. ISBN 9781317326069.
- ^ About EAF, European Alliance for Freedom, archived from the original on 26 March 2012, retrieved 7 July 2011
- ^ Gerolf Annemans verkozen tot Europees partijvoorzitter van de beweging Europa van Naties en Vrijheid Archived 13 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine, vlaamsbelang.org, 16 december 2017.
- ^ ID is nieuwe eurorechtse fractie, Vlaming Philip Claeys is fractiesecretaris, reactnieuws, 14 september 2019.
External links
[edit]- Personal Website
- Personal profile of Philip Claeys in the European Parliament's database of members
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Dutch)