Philip Claeys

Philip Claeys ( born May 24, 1965 in Ghent) is a Belgian right-wing politicians in the party Vlaams Belang. Since 2003 he is a member of the European Parliament.

Life

Claeys is a qualified translator (1988) and has an additional degree in Marketing ( 1991). He was active as a youth chairman from 1995 to 1999 for the Vlaams Blok, which has dissolved in November 2004 after the conviction by the Belgian Court of Appeal and re-established as the Vlaams Belang. Since 1999 he was the chief editor of the magazine of the Vlaams Blok and is now editor of the Vlaams Belang Magazine. Claeys was 1995-2003 Secretary of the fraction of Vlaams Blok in the Flemish Parliament and a member of the party executive since 1995.

2003 Claeys was chosen as the successor to Karel Dillen in the European Parliament. He was a member and Vice Chairman of the Group Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty, which was disbanded in November 2007, and has since been attached Member. He is also a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN). As a deputy, he is in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the United States

Claeys lives with his wife and two children in Overijse.