| 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 on the following European Parliament committees:
| Body | Party | Votes | Result | . | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party seats | Individual | |||||||||||
| 2024 | European Parliament | Party for Freedom | style=text-align:right | 2 | style=text-align:right | 56,682 | style=text-align:right | 6 | [5] |