Bart Staes

Bart Staes ( born August 7, 1958 in Izegem ) is a Belgian politician for the party Groen! . Since 1999 he is a member of the European Parliament.

Life

Staes finished in 1981 his teacher training in the subjects Dutch, English and business. From 1981 to 1999 he was Group employees in the European Parliament. He was elected as a deputy in the European Parliament in 1999. He is a member of the Greens / European Free Alliance and the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. From 1999 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committees EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia and from 2002 to 2004 Chairman of the delegation of the Committee for the parliamentary EU-Russia cooperation.

Staes began his political career at the party Volksunie. From 1980 to 1981, from 1984 to 1987 he was a member of the Executive Board of the youth organization and 1984-1987 Member of the National Council, and from 1995 to 2001 was also a member of the national leadership of the Volksunie. Since 2002 he has been for the party Groen! active.

Publications (selection )

• Het is vlees snag. With Jaak Vandemeulebroucke. Hadewijch, Antwerp 1996, ISBN 90-5240-363-5.
• Voedselveiligheid in de Europese Unie. In: Sampol. 11/2004, ISSN 1372-0740, pp. 45-54.
• De poenscheppers: wanbeheer, fraude en corruptie in Europe. With Hans van droves. Houtekiet, Antwerp 2007, ISBN 9,789,052,407,449th