Claude Moraes

Claude Moraes

Claude Moraes (born October 22, 1965 in Aden ) is a British politician. From 1999 to January 31, 2020, he represented the Greater London constituency in the European Parliament as a MEP of the Labor Party and was a member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament .

Career

Moraes comes from a family of Goa Catholics , residents of Goa , India who converted to Catholicism . After moving to the UK with his parents at the age of six, Claude Moraes grew up in Scotland . After studying English and Scottish law at the University of Dundee , which he in 1987 with the Bachelor of Laws graduated, he acquired in 1989 at Birkbeck College of the University of London to the Master of Science in Public Administration and Administrative Law. He then completed postgraduate studies in international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science until 1991 . During his studies he was an advisor to the members of the British House of Commons John Reid and Paul Boateng from 1986 to 1989 , before he became representative of the European trade union federation ETUC for national politics in 1989 . Moraes held this post until 1992, when he was appointed director of the Joint Council for the Care of Immigrants; from 1993 he was also managing director of the foundation for the support of immigrants. He gave up both offices in 1998 when he instead became a member of the Committee on Racial Equality for one year. He has also been a member of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) since 1997.

In 1999 he was elected for the first time as a member of the European Parliament for the London constituency . There he was first deputy chairman of the delegation for relations with South Africa until 2004. He was re-elected in the 2004 and 2009 parliamentary elections.

As a Member of Parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Special Committee against Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering and a deputy member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection; He is also Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula and a deputy member of the Delegation for relations with India. From 2004, Moraes was chairman of the Intergroup on Combating Racism and for Diversity and vice-chairman of the Intergroup on Aging, and from 2009 chairman of the Labor Party delegation in the European Parliament and coordinator of the Socialist Group in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Interior.

In addition, Moraes drew attention to himself by writing various publications; for example, he was a co-author of Social Work and Minorities in the EU in 1994 and a co-author of The Politics of Migration in 2003 and Migration Policy in the UK a year later . He has also published articles on Justice and Home Affairs and EU issues in newspapers and magazines.

Web links

• Entry on Claude Moraes in the Members' database of the European Parliament