Bendt Bendtsen

Bendt Bendtsen ( March 25, 1954 in Odense ) is a Danish politician of the Conservative People's Party since 2009 and Member of the European Parliament.

Bendtsen made ​​1971 his high-school diploma at the Odense Friskole, 1972, he received an examination of the Agricultural School in Corinth / Funen. Initially, he worked in agriculture, 1975, he began training at the Danish Police Academy. From 1980 he worked as a police officer, from 1984 to the criminal police in Odense.

From 1994 to 2009 Bendtsen was a member of the Danish Parliament the Folketing. In the 1990s, the Conservative Party suffered human quarrels, which contributed to a fall in favor of the voters in the parliamentary election in 1998. The hitherto quite unknown Bendtsen gained the Conservatives back temporarily. On August 5, 1999, he rose to political spokesman and leader of the Conservatives from 2000 to 2008, he had also held the party chairmanship.

He was the Danish Minister for Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Fogh Anders Rasmussen 2001. On 9 September 2008 he resigned in favor of Lene Espersen to its previous offices and took over the top candidate of the Conservatives in the European elections of 2009.

MEPs

Since 2009, Bendtsen is a member of the European Parliament and member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia. As a deputy, he is involved in the Budget Committee and the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand and also in the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

In May 2012, he founded, together with the Austrian MEP Paul Rübig and the Bulgarian MPs Nadezhda Neynsky the European middle class and economic unification of the European People's Party, SME Europe.