Mogens Camre

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.

Controversy 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.

In 2015 he participated in a Pegida Denmark demonstration that gathered 200 demonstrators.

Education 1961: Bachelor of commerce (accountancy) 1967: Master's degree in political and economic science

Career 1967-1968 and 1987-1995: Civil servant, Budget Department of Finance Ministry 1974-1989: Member of Tax Tribunal since 1980: Chairman of the Board of KTAS (1982-1992) and board member of a number of other companies 1985-1987: Member of the Board of Governors of Denmark's National Bank 1995-1999: Budgetary Adviser with Denmark's Permanent Representation to the EU 1962-1966 and 1968-1987: Member of Executive Social Democratic Party in Copenhagen 1967-1968 and 1981-1982: Member of National Executive of Social Democratic Party 1981-1982: Member of Danish TUC's Executive Committee 1981-1982: Member of the executive committee of the Labour Movement's Economic Council 1968-1987: Member of the Folketing Member of several Folketing committees, including the Political and Economic Affairs Committee Chairman of the Folketing's Environment and Planning Committee Vice-chairman of the Folketing's Market Relations and Finance Committees since 1999: Member of the European Parliament since 1999: Vice-chairman of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group

Quotes

Mogens Camre, Danish People's Party's annual meeting (September 16, 2001):