Anneleen Van Bossuyt (born 10 January 1980 in
Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...
) was a Belgian
Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
(MEP)
from January 2015 to July 2019 for the
New Flemish Alliance
The New Flemish Alliance ( nl, Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, N-VA) is a Flemish nationalist and conservative political party in Belgium. The party was founded in 2001 by the right-leaning fraction of the centrist-nationalist People's Union (VU).
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(N-VA), part of the
European Conservatives and Reformists group. She succeeded
Louis Ide
Louis Ide (born 3 July 1973, in Roeselare) is a Belgian physician and politician affiliated to the N-VA.
Career
Ide was Vice President of N-VA from 2004 until 2007. In 2007, he was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate. He was Vice Preside ...
.
She was a member of the
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) is a committee of the European Parliament.
Work of the committee
The committee is responsible for:
* coordination at Community level of national legislation in the sphere of th ...
(IMCO), of which she was the chair from June 2017 to the end of the term. She also was a member of the delegation for
relations with the United States.
Van Bossuyt was N-VA's
main candidate in the
Ghent municipal elections of October 2018 and is
since a member of the Ghent City Council. She was also N-VA's main candidate in the
federal elections of 2019 where she ran on the list for
East Flanders
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, and since holds a seat in the
Chamber of Representatives.
External links
Personal website
References
1980 births
Living people
Politicians from Ghent
New Flemish Alliance MEPs
MEPs for Belgium 2014–2019
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