Diana Wallis

Diana Paulette Wallis ( born June 28, 1954 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a British politician ( LibDem ). From 1999 to 2012 she was a member of the European Parliament.

Career

Wallis studied at the University of London historical studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with honors. Then she graduated in 1976 a Master of Arts in Local Government at the University of Kent. In 1984 she was admitted to the bar and was then to 1999 in London and Hull in a private law firm.

From 1995 to 1999 Wallis was vice mayor of the district of East Riding of Yorkshire. In the European elections in 1999 she was elected to the European Parliament, where they joined the ALDE Group. In the European elections in 2004 and 2009, they were each re-elected.

Until the spring of 2007 Wallis led the delegation of the European Parliament for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the European Economic Area. Along with Stewart Arnold and Ben Idris Jones, published in 2002 a book on the EU 's relations with these countries ( Forgotten Enlargement: Future EU relations with Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, London: Centre for reform).

As a parliamentarian, she sat down for a particular initiatives of direct democracy and in particular for the European Citizens' Initiative, which was finally introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon 2009. They also strongly supported the establishment of the single emergency number 112

Since 2007, Wallis was Deputy Speaker of Parliament. She was also a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Petitions of the Parliament. On January 19, 2012, she announced her resignation from the European Parliament of 31 January 2012, after her presidency application was unsuccessful.

Wallis is a member of the governing body of the Academy of European Law in Trier.