Mogens Camre


Mogens Niels Juel Camre was a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament with 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.

Education

Mogens Camre, Danish People's Party's annual meeting :