Elmar Brok
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Elmar Brok MEP |
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| Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee | |
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In office 10 August 2012 – 1 February 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Gabriele Albertini |
| Succeeded by | David McAllister |
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In office 5 July 1999 – 22 February 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Spencer |
| Succeeded by | Jacek Saryusz-Wolski |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 13 June 1980 |
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| Constituency | Germany |
| President of the Union European Federalists | |
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Assumed office 9 March 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Duff |
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Elmar Peter Brok 14 May 1946 Verl, Westphalia, Germany |
| Political party |
 German:Christian Democratic Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater | |
| Religion | Protestant |
| Website | www |
Elmar Peter Brok (born 14 May 1946) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany, who is best known for his role as chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the CDU, which is part of the European People's Party.
An MEP since 1980, Brok has held many leadership positions in German and European politics. As a member of the Convention on the Constitution for Europe and in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Brok is widely credited with contributing crucially to the Constitution of the European Union. He is currently the President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF).
Brok studied law and politics in Germany and at the Centre for European Governmental Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Formerly, he worked as a radio journalist and newspaper correspondent.
Brok has in the past also held several other leadership positions in the European Parliament, including Member of the European People’s Party (EPP) Political Bureau, Member of the EPP Group Bureau, Coordinator in the European Parliament committees on social affairs, drugs and German unity, and the European Parliament Representative on the Council's Reflection Group for Maastricht II.
Since 2007, Brok has been the co-chair of the EPP Foreign Ministers Meeting, which gathers EPP foreign ministers ahead of meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council, serving alongside Franco Frattini (2007-2011), Radosław Sikorski (2011-2014) and Sebastian Kurz (since 2014).
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