Werner Langen
| Werner Langen | |
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| File:Werner-Langen1.jpg | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 1994 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Werner Langen 27 November 1949 Müden (Mosel), West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party |  German:Christian Democratic Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn, University of Cologne |
Werner Langen (born 27 November 1949) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Political career
Early beginnings
Between 1990 and 1991, Langen served as State Minister for Agriculture in the cabinet of Minister-President Carl-Ludwig Wagner of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1992 until 1993, he was a member of the CDU executive board under the party’s then-chairman, Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Member of the European Parliament, 1994-present
Langen has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 1994 elections. He has since been a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, he has been in charge of steering key financial reforms through the European Parliament, including the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)[1][2] and the Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD 2) in 2015.[3]
Between 1999 and 2009, Langen was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, where he served as the European People’s Party rapporteur for public services whose remit included competition cases.[4]
Between 2006 and 2012, Langen chaired the CDU/CSU delegation to the European Parliament. In this capacity, he once again served as a member of the CDU executive board, this time under the party’s current chairwoman, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Since 2014, Langen has been a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.[5]
Other activities
- European Energy Forum (EEF), Member
- German European Security Association (GESA), Founding Member
- Kangaroo Group, Member
- Ludwig Erhard Foundation, Member
- Pollichia, Member
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External links
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- Official website von Werner Langen (German)
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- ↑ Jeremy Grant (June 17, 2011), European rebuke for US on derivatives Financial Times.
- ↑ Michelle Price (June 19, 2011), Europe Hits Back at U.S. Over Derivatives Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ Jon Benton (July 2, 2015), Consumers set to benefit from new EU insurance laws The Parliament Magazine.
- ↑ German army faces Commission tax evasion inquiry European Voice, December 18, 2002.
- ↑ Member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries European Parliament.
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- 1949 births
- Living people
- MEPs for Germany 2004–09
- Christian Democratic Union (Germany) MEPs
- MEPs for Germany 1999–2004
- MEPs for Germany 2009–14
- Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- MEPs for Germany 2014–19
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