Mogens Camre

Mogens Camre

Mogens NJ Camre (born March 29, 1936 in Randers ; † December 5, 2016 ) was a Danish politician . From 1999 to 2009 he was Member of Parliament for the Danish People's Party (DF) and Vice Chairman of the Group Union for a Europe of Nations . Camre has been accused of racism on several occasions .

Life

In 1961 Camre graduated from Copenhagen Business School with a degree in accounting . In 1967 he completed a further course of study as cand. Polit. (Approximately Master of Political Science) at the University of Copenhagen .

From 1962 to 1987 Camre was a member of the Social Democrats ; from 1967 to 1968 and 1981 to 1982 he was a member of their national committee. From 1968 to 1987 he was a member of the Folketing , where he was chairman of the Committee on Environment and Planning.

From 1967 to 1968 and from 1987 to 1995 he worked as an official for the Danish Ministry of Finance. He was a member of the Tax Tribunal from 1974 to 1989. Since 1980 he has been active in various company bodies, including the committee of KTAS (1982–1992).

Between 1981 and 1982 he was a member of the Danish TUC's Executive Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Labor Movement's Economic Council . From 1985 to 1987 he was on the board of the Danish National Bank . From 1995 to 1999 he worked as a financial advisor for the Permanent Representation of Denmark in the European Union .

In the 1999 European elections , Camre entered the European Parliament for the right-wing populist Dansk Folkeparti (DF) . He was deputy chairman of the Group Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN). During his time as a MEP, he was also a member of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs , the Committee on Budgetary Control , the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection . In the 2004 European elections he was re-elected. He also won a mandate in the 2007 Folketing election , which he renounced in order to end his term in the European Parliament. After the European elections in 2009 , he left the European Parliament.

Camre was married for the third time, his second wife was the writer Vita Andersen . He had seven children, three with his first two wives and one with the third.

Web links

• Entry on Mogens Camre in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs