Willem Schuth

Willem Schuth ( born June 14, 1954 in Assen ) is a Dutch politician (FDP and VVD).

He is a member of the European Parliament for the German FDP, without being a German citizen since 2004. He is currently the only one of the 99 MPs who sends Germany.

Life and career

Schuth made ​​from 1975 to 1976 his military service in the Netherlands armed forces now and then worked as a clerk in the Dutch Ministry of Defence. In 1979 he went to Germany as and worked there until 2004 as an administrative officer in the barracks Seedorf in Lower Saxony.

Party

Schuth, who already belonged to the " Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Démocratie " (VVD ) in the Netherlands, joined in 1996, the FDP one. He was from 1998 to 2006 Deputy Chairman of the FDP district association Elbe-Weser and belongs since 2002 to the state board of the FDP in Lower Saxony. Since 2003 he is member of the Council of the European Liberal, Democratic and Reform Party ( ELDR).

Member of Parliament

Schuth from 2004 to 2009 Member of the European Parliament. There he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Delegations for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the Joint Parliamentary Committee, " European Economic Area ( EEA) ."