During this second term as an MEP, she was again a member of the Committee on Civic Liberties and Internal Affairs, the Sub-Committee on Human Rights and the EC-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, of which she was elected deputy chairperson.

Claudia Roth ended her work as an MEP when she became part of the Alliance 90 / The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag after the German federal election, 1998.

It was during her time as an MEP that she acquired the nickname Madame Ecosse ( French for Mrs Scotland ) because of her strong advocacy of Scottish interests in Strasbourg and Brussels.

In 1999 she gave up being an MEP and became an MSP in the first session of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Highlands and Islands.

King is married to Italian Tiberio Santomarco whom she married in 1994, whilst working for an MEP in Brussels.

Before she became an MEP, Jackson was a Research Fellow at St. Hugh's College Oxford, where she obtained a doctorate in 19th century political history.

A former councillor in the London Borough of Islington, and married to the former leader of the council, Steve Hitchins, she was elected as an MEP for London at the European Parliament election in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and in 2009.

She was criticised by Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative MEP, saying that she had " no background in trade issues at a time when the EU is engaged in critical negotiations with Canada, Korea and the WTO ".

MEP, she holds globalization, intergovernmental organizations, ' euro-mondialism ', free trade and ultra-liberalism responsible for the decline of agriculture and the fishing industry, deindustrialization, offshoring and structural unemployment.

Accompanied by the vice-president of the FN Louis Aliot and Mario Borghezio MEP ( Lega Nord ), she travelled to Lampedusa on 14 March 2011.

Between the first round and the run-off, she received the support of historic figures of Gaullism like Alain Griotteray, Michel Caldagués and the souverainiste MEP Paul-Marie Coûteaux.

Seventh on Labour's 1999 list, she had not been elected in the European Parliament Election, 1999, but replaced Pauline Green who resigned as an MEP in November 1999.

She was the youngest MEP when she took up her seat in 1994.

Wallis was elected Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament 2000 – 2004 and then following the resignation of Chris Davies MEP she was re-elected Leader in 2006 a post she held till January 2007.

Elizabeth Lynne, known as Liz Lynne, ( born 22 January 1948 ) is a British politician, and was a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for the West Midlands for the Liberal Democrats from the 1999 European election until she retired in 2012.

While an MEP, she served on the Fisheries and Regional Development Committees, being elected a vice-chair of the former.

Nicholls ' father was Lord Harmar-Nicholls, former Conservative MP for Peterborough ( 1950 – 1974 ) and MEP for Greater Manchester South ( 1979 – 1984 ), and a life peer, and she is thus entitled to be addressed as " The Honourable Susan Nicholls ".

He was a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) from 1981 to 1984, replacing Eileen Desmond who resigned as an MEP when she was appointed Minister for Health and Social Welfare.

Following her re-election as an MEP in 1999, Green announced that she was retiring politics to take up a position as the first female Chief Executive of Co-operatives UK, a position that she held until 2009.

In November 1999, Green announced that she would be retiring as an MEP to become the first female chief executive of the Co-operative Union, officially taking up the position on New Year's Day 2000.

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

He reiterated this in October, saying he was " astounded " by comments of the ECR group's chairman, the Polish MEP Michal Kaminski, who had said that he believed that the murder of hundreds of Jews in Jedwabne should be considered a lesser crime than those committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

In 2001, SNCF was sued by the father of MEP Alain Lipietz because of the railroad ’ s role in transporting members of his family to the Drancy internment camp during World War II.

During his time in the European Parliament, he was involved in a fracas initiated by fellow MEP Ian Paisley.

A protest at the bridge on 1 September 2007 was supported by the local Cancer Patients Involvement Group, the Road Haulage Association, Yorkshire and Humberside MEP Diana Wallis and local business and council representatives.

" His brother Gay Mitchell was elected a Fine Gael MEP in 2004 and stood down from the Dail under dual mandate rules in 2007.

Banotti, who was an MEP at the time, was the only practising politician among the five presidential candidates.

The message was not clear enough from the MEP side and the negotiations went sluggish.

The party received an endorsement in The Independent from writer A. N. Wilson, as well as support from Paul Howell, who was a speech writer for Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath and a Conservative MEP, and Anthony Meyer, the " stalking horse " candidate against Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

The CDA fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 2002 was addressed by Roger Knapman, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party ; Ashley Mote, prominent UKIP MEP and author of " Overcrowded Britain-Our Immigration Crisis Exposed " ( 2004 ); John Gouriet, a founder with Norris McWhirter of the Freedom Association alongside Derek Turner, editor of Right Now!

In 2004 Paisley was replaced as the DUP MEP by Jim Allister, who resigned from the party in 2007 while retaining his seat.

She first became an MEP in 1975, at a time when the European Parliament was still composed of representative delegations from national parliaments.

In 1994 O ' Malley ran for the European Parliament but was defeated by Pat Cox, a sitting MEP who left the Progressive Democrats to run as an independent when O ' Malley was selected as the candidate to replace him.

He narrowly lost the seat at the 1984 election but was returned to serve as an MEP in 1989 election where he sat with the regionalist Rainbow Group He also canvassed for IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, in which Sands was elected to Westminster.

He was appointed on 1 July 1981 as a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for Dublin, replacing Michael O ' Leary, who had resigned the seat after succeeding Cluskey as Labour leader.

He did not contest the 1989 general election, and on 15 June 1989 he was elected as a Labour Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for Dublin.

In 1994 he was elected a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for the Munster constituency.

In 2003 a request was presented by Frankfurt prosecutors to the European Parliament, requesting they waive the immunity of MEP Cohn-Bendit, in the context of a criminal investigation against the terrorist, Hans-Joachim Klein, but the request was rejected by the assembly.

In 2001, Bolkestein responded to the question raised by European MPs ( MEP ) Harlem Désir, Glyn Ford and Francis Wurtz, who asked the Commission to investigate the accusations brought forward by Révélation $, a book written by investigative journalist Denis Robert and former Clearstream member Ernest Backes, and to ensure that the 10 June 1990 directive ( 91 / 308 CE ) on control of financial establishment be applied in all member states in an effective way.

Recently, the Flemish liberal party faced several high-ranking elected officials breaking away in order to found new " right-liberal " parties: MEP Ward Beysen ( Liberaal Appèl, LA ), senator Leo Govaerts ( Veilig Blauw ), senator Hugo Coveliers ( VLOTT ), VLD board member Boudewijn Bouckaert ( Cassadra vzw ) and senator Jean-Marie Dedecker ( Lijst Dedecker, LDD ).

In the European Parliament, the party's one MEP — Kristiina Ojuland — sits in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ( ALDE ) group, while its member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe — currently Margus Hanson — sits in the ALDE group in the Assembly.

As of September 2008, Kilroy-Silk, who was elected to the European Parliament on the UKIP list, remained a member of the Veritas Party, but sat as an Independent MEP.

Sarah Ann Ludford, Baroness Ludford ( born 14 March 1951 ) is a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) and a nonvoting member of the House of Lords ( where her voting membership is suspended during her MEP tenure ).

In October 2008, Parliament's rules were changed so that if a member of the Lords were elected as an MEP, their right to sit and vote in the Lords would be suspended.

He is a grandson of General Charles de Gaulle, and served as a member of the European Parliament ( MEP ), from 1994 to 2004 ( as a member of the Movement for France ).

She was first elected a Teachta Dála ( TD ) in 1977 serving as a member of Dáil Éireann until 1981, and then again from 1987 to 2007, as well as being a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for Dublin from 1979 to 1984.

NSi is a member of the European People's Party ( EPP ) and in the European Parliament its MEP Lojze Peterle sits with the EPP Group.

In 1994, Skinner was elected to the European Parliament as the Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for Kent West, a political constituency within England, followed a year later by an appointment to the position of a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, a position he continues to hold.

He was a Labour member of the European Parliament from 1994 to his death, first serving as MEP for Staffordshire East and Derby, and later as one of the members for the East Midlands.

In addition to his position as MEP, he was a former leader of the Conservative group in Brussels a substitute for the Committee on Environment and Public Health and also a member of the Delegation for relations with India, China and South Asia.

As an MEP, he said that he was " not a signed up member " of the " European Project " and did not support a more centralised European Union, " unlike most of my MEP colleagues ".

This decision generated heavy protest from Barry Madlener, a representative of the Dutch Freedom Party, who noted that Schulz had himself recently referred to fellow MEP Daniël van der Stoep ( also a member of the Dutch Freedom Party ) as being ´ a fascist ´ for which Schulz himself was not removed.

His fellow UKIP MEP Jeffrey Titford was also a briefly a member after the Referendum Party folded.

He is a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for Scotland and Vice Chair of the Committee on Fisheries, in addition to which, he is member of the Executive of the Scottish Conservative party.

He is Scotland's youngest MEP and is Honorary President of both the youth wings of the SNP, the Young Scots for Independence and the Federation of Student Nationalists, as well as a member of the SNP's National Executive Committee.

During his second term as an MEP, Mr Purvis was Vice Chairman of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee ( 2002-2009 ) and a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy ( 1999-2009 ).