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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 59)
Ghent, Belgium
Political partyVlaams Belang (since 2004)
Vlaams Blok (before 2004)
OccupationPolitician

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. He participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007 and in 2012. Since late 2010, he was a board member of the eurosceptic party European Alliance for Freedom, which was dissolved in 2016. From 2017 to 2019 he was the secretary-general of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group, and since 2019 he has been secretary of the Identity and Democracy group.

References

  1. "Philip CLAEYS". European Parliament. 24 May 1965. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  2. Hannus, Martha (2012). Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön (in Swedish). Expo Research. p. 67. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022.
  3. "Counter Jihad Brussels: 18-19 October 2007". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 20 October 2007.
  4. Lazaridis, Gabriella; Campani, Giovanna (2016). Understanding the Populist Shift: Othering in a Europe in Crisis. Taylor & Francis. p. 91. ISBN 9781317326069.
  5. About EAF, European Alliance for Freedom, archived from the original on 26 March 2012, retrieved 7 July 2011
  6. 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.
  7. ID is nieuwe eurorechtse fractie, Vlaming Philip Claeys is fractiesecretaris, reactnieuws, 14 september 2019.

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