Mogens Camre | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 20 June 1999 – 13 June 2009 | |
Constituency | Denmark |
Member of the Folketing | |
In office 23 January 1968 – 7 September 1987 | |
Constituency | Vestre Storkreds |
Personal details | |
Born | (1936-03-29)29 March 1936 Frederikssund, Denmark |
Died | 5 December 2016(2016-12-05) (aged 80) |
Political party | Danish People's Party (from 1999) Social Democrats (until 1999) |
Other political affiliations | Union for Europe of the Nations |
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.
Camre made statements on several occasions which occasioned controversy. Among other things, he stated that
"When I look at the voting rules, I see that countries like Romania and Bulgaria have many more votes than Denmark and Sweden and Finland, and I think - honestly speaking - that we are more clever than they are,"[1]
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.[2]
In 2015 he participated in a Pegida Denmark demonstration that gathered 200 demonstrators.[3]
Mogens Camre, Danish People's Party's annual meeting (September 16, 2001):[4]
"The Islamic political-religious movement deals with world supremacy, as did other fanatic political ideologies in history. This world supremacy they are not able to achieve by military means, but try to achieve by flooding the world with people. All western countries are infiltrated by the Muslims - and some of them speak to us nicely, while they wait to be many enough to have us removed - like in the Sudan, Indonesia, Nigeria and in the Balkans."
"There shall not be given concessions to Islamic demands of a place in Denmark - never shall there be built a mosque in our country."
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