politician
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who served as
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 ...
Böge served as cice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand, member of the
Committee on Budgets The Committee on Budgets (BUDG) is a committee of the European Parliament. It has 41 members plus 39 substitute members. The committee's current chair is Jean Arthuis, who has held this position since 7 July 2014.Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with Japan. In addition, he was standing
rapporteur
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on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013.
Böge served as vice-chairman of the Budget Committee and the Parliament’s lead negotiator on the EU’s financial framework for 2007-13; under his stewardship, the Parliament got an extra €4 billion and the chance to vote on the budget review. He later chaired the Budget Committee from 2007 to 2009, when he was succeeded by
Alain Lamassoure
Alain Lamassoure (born 10 February 1944 in Pau) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He was a member of Les Républicains, which is part of the European People's Party, and was the chairman o ...
. In 2010, he drafted the Parliament’s legislative bill on the extra financing needs of €1.4 billion for the
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
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European External Action Service
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.
In 2009, Böge was a CDU delegate to the
Federal Convention
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for the purpose of electing the
President of Germany
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.
In June 2013, Böge resigned as the EPP group’s budget negotiator in protest at an initial compromise deal between the European Parliament, the European Commission under the leadership of José Manuel Barroso and the European Council on a €960 billion budget for 2014-20. Alongside
Pervenche Berès
Pervenche Berès (born 10 March 1957 in Paris) is a French politician was a Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France until 2019. She is a member of the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists.
On 28 July 2004, Be ...
, he currently serves as rapporteur on the European Parliament's report on a budgetary capacity for the
eurozone
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.
In September 2017, Reimer announced that he would not stand in the 2019 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
* German Animal Breeders Federation (ADT), President
* Conseil Européen des Jeunes Agriculteurs, President (1977–80)
* German Federation of Rural Youth (BDL), Deputy Chairman (1973–77)
Recognition
* Medal of Exceptional Offer to the Republic of Cyprus
Personal life
Böge and his wife, who is from
Cyprus
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Hamburger Abendblatt
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