NAME: Claeys, Philip.

BELGIUM

POLITICAL GROUP: Non-attached (NI).

PARTY: Vlaams Belang.

CONSTITUENCY: Flanders.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: Foreign Affairs Committee 2003; Security and Defence Subcommittee 2004; Korean Peninsula Delegation 2007; Substitute, Turkey Delegation 2007; Australia and New Zealand Delegation 2004-2007.

Political Career: City Councillor in Overijse 2007; Member of the European Parliament 2003; Chief Editor of the Vlaams Belang magazine 1999; Chairman of the Vlaams Blok Youth Organisation VBJ 1995-1999.

Special Political Interests: Enlargement policy; Turkey; immigration; transatlantic relations.

Education: Vlaamse Economische Hogeschool Brussels; HEC Saint-Louis, Brussels.

Qualifications: Master's Degree in Translation; Marketing; Post-university Degree.

Languages: Dutch, French, English and German.

Co-author of: (with Koen Dillen MEP, to be translated in 2008) Turkije in de Europese Unie, een brug te ver. [Turkey in the European Union, a bridge too far].

Hobbies: Reading.

Born: 24 May 1965, Gent.

Marital status: Married.

Children: 2.