Edith Mastenbroek
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Edith Mastenbroek is a Dutch politician
and Member of the European Parliament
. She is a member of the Labour Party
, which is part of the Party of European Socialists
, and sits on the European Parliament
's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is also a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and a member of the delegation for relations with Israel
.
She was rapporteur for the Safer Internet Plus Programme at the start of her term in the European Parliament. She is active on anti-terrorism, information security, data protection and privacy, and on seeking alternatives to Strasbourg as a meeting place for the European Parliament once a month. She is a core member of the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR).
She is also an observer on the European Security Research Advisory Board. She is President and Chairwoman of the European chapter of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC).
Politics of the Netherlands
The politics of the Netherlands take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy and a decentralised unitary state. The Netherlands is described as a consociational state...
and Member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
. She is a member of the Labour Party
Labour Party (Netherlands)
The Labour Party , is a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands. Since the 2003 Dutch General Election, the PvdA has been the second largest political party in the Netherlands. The PvdA was a coalition member in the fourth Balkenende cabinet following 22 February 2007...
, which is part of the Party of European Socialists
Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...
, and sits on the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is also a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and a member of the delegation for relations with Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
.
She was rapporteur for the Safer Internet Plus Programme at the start of her term in the European Parliament. She is active on anti-terrorism, information security, data protection and privacy, and on seeking alternatives to Strasbourg as a meeting place for the European Parliament once a month. She is a core member of the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR).
She is also an observer on the European Security Research Advisory Board. She is President and Chairwoman of the European chapter of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC).
Career
- Higher degree in political sciencePolitical sciencePolitical Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
(specialising in international relations) (2000) - Trainee with the Democratic Leadership Council, Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
(2000) - Senior researcher with Infodrome - a think tank for the information society (2001-2002)
- Public affairs official/spokesperson for the ISP xs4all (2002-2004)
- Coordinator of the 'Niet Nix' innovation movement (1999)
- Assisted the PvdA election programme committee (2001)
- Member of the PvdA PES delegation (1998-2004)
- Member of the executive committee of the 'Ben je bang voor mij?' foundation (Are you afraid of me?) - for dialogue on IslamIslamIslam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
and integration (since 2002)
External links
- Official website
- European Parliament biography
- Declaration of financial interestsDeclaration of financial interestsDeclarations of financial interests are a means of making conflict of interestsof people in public office known and to reduce them by making them public.- European Parliament :...
(in DutchDutch languageDutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
; PDFPortable Document FormatPortable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
file) - GOPAC website