Jens-Peter Bonde

Jens-Peter Bonde (born on 27 March 1948 in Aabenraa) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Junibevægelsen party. He is co-chairman of the Independence and Democracy group in the European Parliament, with UKIP's Nigel Farage, and sits on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He is a substitute member of the Committee on Budgetary Control.

He frequently appears in the media to comment on EU affairs.

Jens-Peter Bonde emerged from the Danish Left of the 1970s, however he has been on the centre-left for most of the past three decades, in a bid towards a more democratic and transparent European Union. In November 2005 he was the inspiration behind the setting up of a new Party at a European level, EUDemocrats.

Mr Bonde has written about 50 books in Danish on the EU, including "reader-friendly" editions of several EU treaties (for "reader-friendly" EU Constitution see: [http://euabc.com EUABC.com] ). In advance of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, he also worked on translations of the EU treaties into the languages of the acceding member states. Mr Bonde has also written 5 books in English.

Retirement

On the 25^th of March 2008, Bonde announced his retirement from the European Parliamentcite web |title = "Bonde to leave the European Parliament" |url=http://www.bonde.com/index.php/bonde_UK/article/bonde_to_leave_the_european_parliament/ |accessdate = 2008-03-25 |date= 2008-03-25] . Bonde intends to spend more time encouraging the growth of parties similar to the June Movement in the rest of Europe and building the EUDemocrats. He will also be working for referendums on the Treaty of Lisbon. Bonde resigned his seat on the 9^th of May 2008. He was replaced by Hanne Dahl, who was placed second on the June Movement's candidate list in the 2004 electioncite web |title = "EUROPA-PARLAMENTSVALGETDEN 13. JUNI 2004" |url=http://www.im.dk/imEverest/Publications/imdk%20x2D%20dansk/EPx2Dvalg_2004/20070817141036/CurrentVersion/valgpub1ev.pdf |accessdate = 2008-03-25 |date= 2007-08-08] .

Education

* 1966: Advanced school-leaving certificate
* 1966-1974: Studied political science at the University of Aarhus

Career

* 1974-1979: Editor
* 1972: Co-founder of the People's Movement against the EC
* 1991: Co-founder of Denmark 92
* Co-founder (1992) and spokesperson (since 1992) of the June Movement
* since 1979: Member of the European Parliament
* 1992-1994: Chairman of the Delegation for relations with Iceland
* During 1994-1995 he was member of the Tindemans group
* Co-Chairman (1994-1997) and Chairman (1997-1999) of the EDN Group
* 1999-2004: Chairman of the Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities
* Chairman of the Independence/Democracy Group
* Co-founder of the Intergroup SOS Democracy
* Co-founder of the Intergroup Eurosun
* 1992: Co-founder of TEAM
* 2004: Co-founder of Friends of Clean Accounts, The Referendum Group
* 2005: Co-founder of EUDemocrats, a new transnational party at European level

"See also:" European Parliament election, 2004 (Denmark)

External links

* Official website of Jens-Peter Bonde:
** Da icon http://www.bonde.dk
** En icon http://www.bonde.com
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* [http://indemgroup.eu Independence/Democracy group in the European parliament]

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