Marieke Ehlers | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Constituency: | Netherlands |
Parliamentarygroup: | Patriots for Europe |
Termstart: | 16 July 2024 |
Birth Date: | df=y 6 May 1988 |
Birth Place: | South Africa |
Birthname: | Marieke Roos |
Party: | Party for Freedom |
Otherparty: | Patriots.eu |
Alma Mater: | The Hague University of Applied Sciences University of Kent University of Johannesburg |
Marieke Roos (; born 6 May 1988) is a Dutch educator and politician of the Party for Freedom who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1]
Ehlers was born and raised in South Africa.[2] She graduated from The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands with a bachelor's degree in international and European law. After this, she studied at the University of Kent for a master's degree in international law and international relations and then completed an LL.D. in law at the University of Johannesburg, with a thesis on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy in international law, while working part-time as a lecturer. She subsequently worked as a lecturer in Johannesburg, and a law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.[2] She later moved back to Europe and worked as a policy advisor in the European Parliament for six years.[2] [3]
Ehlers was elected to the European Parliament in the June 2024 election for the PVV, which subsequently joined the Patriots for Europe group. She is a full member on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and a substitute on the Committee on Development and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Body | Party | Votes | Result | . | ||||||||
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2024 | European Parliament | Party for Freedom | style=text-align:right | 2 | style=text-align:right | 56,682 | style=text-align:right | 6 | [4] |