Manfred Weber

Manfred Weber (born 14 July 1972 Niederhatzkofen ) is an MEP and German politician of the CSU.

• 2.1 Rejection of anti-discrimination directive
• 2.2 EU Return Directive
• 2.3 SWIFT agreement
• 2.4 call for " Delete and Block " on the Internet
• 2.5 call for responses to NSA affair

Life

Education and work

After his diploma Manfred Weber made ​​military service in Neuburg an der Donau. He then attended the University of Munich. After completing his degree in Engineering Science 1996, he founded the DG Consulting GmbH consultants and 1998, the G U GbR. Both companies are active in the field of environmental and quality management and occupational safety.

Political career

Weber is for the CSU since 2004 Member of the European Parliament. Previously, he was a member of the Bavarian Parliament since 2002. Since 2002 he has been county council in the district of Kelheim.

Between 2003 and 2007, Weber was state chairman of the Junge Union in Bavaria. On 19 January 2008 Manfred Weber was elected with 97 percent of the delegates' votes to the district chairman of the CSU Lower Bavaria and thus the successor of the former CSU party chairman and Bavarian Finance Minister Erwin Huber. In the years 2009 and 2011, Weber was confirmed with 99 percent of the vote as District Chairman.

Manfred Weber is a member of the CSU Board and the CSU Bureau, the narrowest leadership circle of the CSU.

In July 2009, Weber was voted one of the ten Vice- Presidents of the European People's Party ( EPP) in the European Parliament.

In the European Parliament Weber 2009-2014 Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Delegation for relations with India in the period. As a deputy, he is in the Committee on Regional Development, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Subcommittee on Human Rights and by the delegation in the Joint Parliamentary Committee EU -Turkey and the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community.

From 2007 to 2009, Weber EPP- ED Coordinator in the Committee on Internal Affairs at the domestic policy spokesman for the EPP- total fraction. Since December 2009, Weber heads as chairman of the CSU Policy Commission. Before him this office Alois Glück, Edmund Stoiber and Theodor Waigel had held.

Others commitment

Weber is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians European Parliament.

Private

Manfred Weber is married and lives in wild mountain in the district of Kelheim.

Political positions

Weber argues for a proactive and positive European policy of the CSU and was considered one of the crown prince of his party in 2009 by the magazine Der Spiegel. Following the resignation of Karl- Theodor zu Guttenberg, he was, next to Ilse Aigner, discussed again in this connection in the press.

Weber regarded as conservative values ​​and has called for a Christian conservative and liberal renewal after the Bundestag elections in 2009: "We need to go back to credibility and reliability. And we need to sharpen based on our principles our profile. That is for me. Back to the roots, to the virtues that have made ​​strong over 60 years, the CSU "

Rejection of the anti-discrimination directive

Weber spoke out against the anti-discrimination directive from the EU, because by this threat of " a massive intervention in the nation-state " and an additional red tape.

EU Return Directive

In 2008, Weber was the rapporteur for the European Parliament adopted Directive 2008/115/EC ( Return Directive ), which governs the repatriation of illegally staying third country nationals from the European Economic Area.

SWIFT agreement

In November 2009, shortly before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the zubilligt a Council of the European Union equal role in the legislative process to the European Parliament, the Council negotiated with the United States on an agreement on sharing European bank data to the United States ( " SWIFT agreement " ). Manfred Weber sat in this context for an involvement of Parliament in the decision-making process and criticized the method chosen by the Council as unacceptable.

Weber called in this context a separate system for the analysis of bank data of consumers in Europe: 'key points for the EPP Group are a very limited storage life of data and information to interested parties. "

Demand for " Delete and Block " on the Internet

Weber is a proponent of retention. The attacks in Norway in July 2011, he took the opportunity to call for their next launch the deletion of extremist websites. He said in this regard: " Extremist websites have to be banned across Europe ."

Call for responses to NSA affair

In April 2013, the whistleblower Edward Snowden gave several media documents that in 2013 brought the surveillance and espionage rolling. Shortly after the federal election in 2013 it was revealed that the NSA and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and about 30 other heads of state listen ( e). This is also the subject of coalition talks between Union ( CDU and CSU) and the SPD. In the Union, more and more voices are being raised to draw significant conclusions from the NSA affair. Weber makes it hard to terminate the Safe Harbor agreement between the EU and the USA.