Ulrike Rodust Explained

Ulrike Rodust
Honorific-Suffix:MEP
Office:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start:29 August 2008
Term End:2019
Constituency:Germany
Birth Date:4 June 1949
Birth Place:Quakenbrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
Party: Germany
Social Democratic Party

Party of European Socialists

Ulrike Rodust (born 4 June 1949) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2008 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.[1]

Between 1993 and 2008, Rodust was a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein.

Parliamentary service

In addition to her committee assignments, Rodust serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara[2] and of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.[3] She is one of the vice chairs of the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas.[4] In 2013, she represented the Parliament in the negotiations on a reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) for the budgetary period of 2014-2020.[5]

In May 2018, Rodust announced that she would not stand in the 2019 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ulrike RODUST | History of parliamentary service | MEPs | European Parliament . Europarl.europa.eu . 2017-04-09.
  2. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/intergroupes/VIII_LEG_26-Western%20Sahara.pdf Members
  3. http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/about/members/ Members
  4. http://searica.eu/en/intergroup/chair-and-board Chair & Board
  5. Dave Keating (May 2, 2013), MEPs threaten to halt CFP talks European Voice.
  6. http://www.ln-online.de/Nachrichten/Norddeutschland/Debatte-um-Rodust-Nachfolge Debatte um Rodust-Nachfolge