Philip Claeys | |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start: | 16 June 2003 |
Term End: | 30 June 2014 |
Birth Date: | 1965 5, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Ghent, Belgium |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Party: | Vlaams Belang (since 2004) Vlaams Blok (before 2004) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Philip Claeys (in Dutch; Flemish ˈfilɪp ˈklaːis/; born 24 May 1965) is a Belgian Flanders-based politician for the Vlaams Belang.
Claeys was a Member of the European Parliament from 2003 to 2014.[1] He participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007[2] [3] and in 2012.[4] 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,[5] and since 2019 he has been secretary of the Identity and Democracy group.[6]