Morten Messerschmidt

Morten Messerschmidt ( born November 13, 1980 in Frederikssund ) is a politician of the Danish People 's Party ( DF). Since 2009, he sits in the European Parliament.

Profession

After graduation in 1999 Messerschmidt studied law at the University of Copenhagen. In 2009 he passed the exam. From 2003 to 2005 he worked for the DF- MEP Mogens Camre.

Policy

2001 turned Messerschmidt together with other members of the DF - Youth League a newspaper ad with the slogan " mass rape, gross violence, insecurity, forced marriages, oppression of women, gang violence - that is what a multi-ethnic society offers us." For the young politicians were sentenced to 14 days in jail on parole in October 2002 pursuant to § 266 b of the Criminal Code.

Messerschmidt 2005 was first elected to the Folketing and received the post of European policy spokesman for his group. In 2007 he was able to improve his personal election result and was rewarded with the additional post of energy policy spokesman. At the 2009 European election he stood as leading candidate of the DF. He reached the second highest number of personal votes in the history of Danish European elections. He joined the Eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group ( EFD).

Political positions

Messerschmidt takes tight EU - critical positions. He has repeatedly called for the abolition of the European Parliament and wants all the skills transferred back to the nation-states. Checks at national borders should be reintroduced. The EU should receive less money from the national budget. EU membership of Turkey applies to prevent it.

Public occurrence

Messerschmidt occurs - in contrast to the otherwise lax dress code in Danish politics - very neatly dressed on. He is not afraid of popular media formats in order to get attention. In 2003 he participated in Big Brother VIP in part on Danish television; In 2008, he took with his wife, singer Dot Wessman, a CD with Christmas songs on.

On 27 April 2007 reported the daily newspaper BT that Morten Messerschmidt was singing on Hitler's birthday, April 20, showed the Nazi salute in the restaurant Grøften in Tivoli and Nazi songs. Messerschmidt admitted to have been drunk and sang the first verse of the first song Strofe of Germany. Thus Hitler to want to have glorified, denied Messerschmidt. To prevent damage to his party, he joined temporarily out of party and faction. After two years before the Danish courts Messerschmidt was freed from the charge of having shown publicly the Nazi salute.