Ulrike Rodust

Ulrike Rodust MEP
Ulrike Rodust
Member of the European Parliament
In office 29 August 2008 – 2019
Constituency	Germany
Personal details
Born	(1949-06-04) 4 June 1949 (age 74) Quakenbrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
Political party	German Social Democratic Party  European Union Party of European Socialists

Ulrike Rodust (born 4 June 1949) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2008 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.^[1]

Between 1993 and 2008, Rodust was a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein.

Parliamentary service

• Member, Committee on Fisheries (2008-2019)
• Member, Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2009-2019)
• Member, Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-2019)
• Member, Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2008-2009)
• Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism (2008-2009)
• Member, Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (2009-2014)

In addition to her committee assignments, Rodust serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara^[2] and of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.^[3] She is one of the vice chairs of the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas.^[4] In 2013, she represented the Parliament in the negotiations on a reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) for the budgetary period of 2014-2020.^[5]

In May 2018, Rodust announced that she would not stand in the 2019 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.^[6]

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