Philip Claeys
Member of the European Parliament
In office
16 June 2003 – 30 June 2014
Personal details
Born (1965-05-24) 24 May 1965 (age 58)
Ghent, Belgium
Political partyVlaams Belang (since 2004)
Vlaams Blok (before 2004)
OccupationPolitician

Philip Claeys (Dutch: [ˈfilɪp ˈklaːis]; born 24 May 1965) is a Belgian Flanders-based politician for the Vlaams Belang.

Political career

Claeys was a Member of the European Parliament from 2003 to 2014.[1] He participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007[2] and in 2012.[3] Since late 2010, he was a board member of the eurosceptic party European Alliance for Freedom, which was dissolved in 2016.[4] From 2017 to 2019 he was the secretary-general of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group,[5] and since 2019 he has been secretary of the Identity and Democracy group.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Philip CLAEYS". European Parliament. 24 May 1965. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  2. ^ Hannus, Martha (2012). Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön (in Swedish). Expo Research. p. 67 (5).
  3. ^ Lazaridis, Gabriella; Campani, Giovanna (2016). Understanding the Populist Shift: Othering in a Europe in Crisis. Taylor & Francis. p. 91. ISBN 9781317326069.
  4. ^ About EAF, European Alliance for Freedom, archived from the original on 26 March 2012, retrieved 7 July 2011
  5. ^ Gerolf Annemans verkozen tot Europees partijvoorzitter van de beweging Europa van Naties en Vrijheid Archived 13 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine, vlaamsbelang.org, 16 december 2017.
  6. ^ ID is nieuwe eurorechtse fractie, Vlaming Philip Claeys is fractiesecretaris, reactnieuws, 14 september 2019.

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