Philip Claeys

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 party	Vlaams Belang (since 2004) Vlaams Blok (before 2004)
Occupation	Politician

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

^ "Philip CLAEYS". European Parliament. 24 May 1965. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
^ Hannus, Martha (2012). Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön (in Swedish). Expo Research. p. 67 (5).
^ Lazaridis, Gabriella; Campani, Giovanna (2016). Understanding the Populist Shift: Othering in a Europe in Crisis. Taylor & Francis. p. 91. ISBN 9781317326069.
^ About EAF, European Alliance for Freedom, archived from the original on 26 March 2012, retrieved 7 July 2011
^ 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.
^ ID is nieuwe eurorechtse fractie, Vlaming Philip Claeys is fractiesecretaris, reactnieuws, 14 september 2019.

External links

Personal Website
Personal profile of Philip Claeys in the European Parliament's database of members
Appearances on C-SPAN
Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Dutch)