Bart Staes

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Bart Staes
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
1999
Personal details
Born 7 August 1958 (1958-08-07) (age 53)
Izegem
Nationality Belgian
Political party Volksunie
Groen! (2002–)
Residence Merelbeke
Alma mater University of Ghent
Occupation Lawyer
Politician
Website Official website

Bart Hubert Wilfried Marcel Staes (born on 7 August 1958 in Izegem) is a Belgian politician and a Member of the European Parliament for Flanders. He is a member of Groen!, part of the European Greens. He sits in a transnational delegation together with MEPs for the GreenLeft. He started his career as a Bachelor Dutch-English-economics and became a politician later on. He lives in Antwerp. He started his political career in the Volksunie, which later became Spirit. 2002, Bart Staes made, because of the cartel sp.a-Spirit, the move to the ten-called Agalev (later Groen!). As from 1999, he's ininteruptedly a member of parliament of Europe of firstly Volksunie, later Spirit and now Groen!. He is especially interested in environment and peace movements.

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[edit] Political history

His political career started with membership of the Volksunie, with the collapse of that party in 2002 he joined Groen!.

[edit] European Parliament

Staes was first elected into the European Parliament in 1999 and was reelected, as only member from his party, in 2004 and 2009. He currently sits on the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

[edit] Career

Politics Curriculum

President VolksunieJongeren (1980–1981) and(1984–1987)

Member of the VU-party-council (1984–1987) en (1995–2001)

Second follower VU-senate list (1995–1999)

Member Spirit-party persidency (2001–2002)

Mandatory of Agalev/Groen! (juli 2002 - )

Member of party council of Groen! (2003 - )

Member of European parliament (1999 - )

Member of fraction Greens/European Free Alliance (Groenen/Europese Vrije Alliantie)

Member of Budget control-commission

Instant member of Commission Environmental gestion, Public Health and Food security

Member of Parlementary cooperative commission EU-Russia

Instant member of Parlemantary cooperative commission EU-Central-Asia

initiator of the Intergroup Chechnya

Author of manifest van de gravensteengroep

Publication Het vlees is zwak met Jaak Vandemeulebroucke, Hadewijch, Antwerpen, 1996

Echo's voor een ander Europa, Houtekiet, Antwerpen, 2004

Voor een ander Europa, Houtekiet, Antwerpen, 2009

extern link www.bartstaes.be

Bart Staes in the European parliament

[edit] Timeline

  • 13/06/1999 – : Flag of Europe.svg Member of European Parliament

[edit] External links


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