Mogens Camre | |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start: | 20 June 1999 |
Term End: | 13 June 2009 |
Constituency: | Denmark |
Office1: | Member of the Folketing |
Term Start1: | 23 January 1968 |
Term End1: | 7 September 1987 |
Constituency1: | Vestre Storkreds |
Birth Date: | 1936 3, df=y |
Birth Place: | Frederikssund, Denmark |
Party: | Danish People's Party (from 1999) Social Democrats (until 1999) |
Otherparty: | Union for Europe of the Nations |
Mogens Niels Juel Camre (29 March 1936 – 5 December 2016) was a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Danish People's Party, a vice-chairman of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. He was also substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Camre made statements on several occasions which occasioned controversy. Among other things, he stated that This statement was interpreted by several other MEPs, among them Hannes Swoboda, an Austrian Social-Democrat and Renate Weber, a Romanian MEP, to mean that Camre had stated that Danes were more clever than Bulgarians and Romanians.
On 13 November 2007 he was elected to the Danish parliament, but only two days later announced that he declined his seat in parliament because it would mean that he couldn't finish his term in the European Parliament.[1]
In 2015 he participated in a Pegida Denmark demonstration that gathered 200 demonstrators.[2]
Mogens Camre, Danish People's Party's annual meeting (September 16, 2001):[3]