Rui Tavares
Rui Tavares ( born July 29, 1972 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese politician.
Tavares was elected to the European Parliament in 2009. The non-party politician drew this one on the list of the Bloco de Esquerda and accordingly belonged to the Group of the European United Left. On 20 June 2011, he moved but the Greens / EFA Group.
MEPs
Tavares is Deputy Vorsitzenderim special committee on organized crime, corruption and money laundering.
He is a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries and in the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.
As a deputy, he is in the Committee on Culture and Education
Political Activities
After Hungary in a short time, several changes in the law and a new constitution on 1 January 2012 introduced switched itself in consultation with the Commission and the Council, the European Parliament a. Tavares was appointed rapporteur of his committee. He presented the report on 2 June 2013, a debate in the European Parliament. The report expresses concern that fundamental rights are not respected, created too great a concentration of power and the rule of law is limited. The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, participated in the debate and said the report was a threat to Hungary.