Frédérique Ries

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Frédérique Ries (2018)

Frédérique Ries (born May 14, 1959 in Balen ) is a Belgian politician for the Mouvement Réformateur (MR). Ries has been a member of the European Parliament since 1999 and has been re-elected four times (2004, 2009, 2014, 2019) since then. Her main political focus is on environmental policy.

Life

Ries studied economics at the University of Liège . In 1981, she earned a licentiate in Journalism at the same university. Ries worked from 1981 to 1984 as the commercial director of the private radio broadcaster FM56 and from 1984 to 1987 as a producer and presenter for RTL-TV Luxembourg. She then worked as a journalist at RTL TVI until 1998 .

In 1999, Ries was elected to the European Parliament for the first time for the party réformateur libéral / Front démocratique des francophones (PRL-FDF) . She joined the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), for which she was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy and an alternate member of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport. For a short break - from February to July 2004 - she did not exercise her mandate, as she was the State Secretary for European Affairs and Foreign Affairs in the Verhofstadt II government , after Jacques Simonet (MR) was elected Prime Minister of the Brussels-Capital Region Affairs took over.

In 2004 Ries was re-elected to the European Parliament , she joined the ALDE group together with her colleagues Gérard Deprez and Antoine Duquesne . In the 6th legislative period (2004–2009) Ries was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Human Rights subcommittee for her group . She was also a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs .

In the 2009 European elections , Ries defended her mandate and moved in with top candidate Louis Michel . In the 7th legislative period (2009–2014) she was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (2009–2012) for her group . She was a deputy member of the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy .

In 2014 Ries moved into the European Parliament again , together with Louis Michel and Gérard Deprez . In the 8th legislative period (2014–2019) she was again a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety for her group. She was also a member of the special committee for the EU's pesticide approval process , which she chaired as deputy chairman, and a deputy member of the committee on international trade and budgetary control . In the legislature, she was, among other things, rapporteur for the European Parliament for the GMO Directive amending the 2001 Directive with regard to the possibility for member states to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs on their territory. From May 2018, she was also Parliament's rapporteur for the implementation of the Ecodesign Directive , an ecological concept that aims to reduce negative environmental impacts over the entire life cycle of the product.

For the European elections in 2019 , she ran for second place in the MR, behind top candidate Olivier Chastel . The party won 2 (instead of 3 as before) seats. Chastel and Ries joined the newly formed group Renew Europe , which largely corresponds to the previous ALDE group. The group members elected her as one of the group's deputy chairmen. For Renew Europe she is a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Petitions Committee . She is an alternate member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights .

Web links

Commons : Frédérique Ries  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 5th electoral term | Frédérique RIES | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 6th legislative term | Frédérique RIES | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 7th legislative term | Frédérique RIES | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 8th legislative term | Frédérique RIES | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Une list committed to thunder un nouvel élan à l'Europe. Mouvement Réformateur, March 29, 2019, accessed on July 19, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ 9th legislative term | Frédérique RIES | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ries, Frédérique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician (MR), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Balen