Renate Weber
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Renate Weber MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Romania |
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Assumed office November 2007 |
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| Advisor on constitutional and legislative matters to the President of Romania | |
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In office December 2004 – 2005 |
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| President | Traian Băsescu |
| Prime Minister | Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu |
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| Born | 3 August 1955 Botoșani, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party | National Liberal Party |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | http://www.renateweber.eu/ |
Renate Weber is a Romanian lawyer and human rights activist who, in November 2007, was elected as Member of the European Parliament. She is the first Romanian appointed as Chief of an EU Election Observation Mission. Renate Weber was Chair of the Soros Foundation - Romania (formerly known as the Open Society Foundation Romania), between 1998–2005 and 2006 - 2007. Between 2004 - 2005 she was Advisor on constitutional and legislative matters to the President of Romania.
Renate Weber has graduated the Law Faculty of Bucharest University, in 1979 and became a lawyer at the Bucharest Bar.
In the 1990s, Renate Weber has become one of the strongest voices of the Romanian civil society, being involved in a number of national and international non-profit organization, such as the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (Vienna), where she was Vice-chair (1994–1996), or the Association for the Protection of Human Rights in Romania - Helsinki Committee (APADOR-CH), where she was Co-chair (1994–1999). Renate Weber was the most longest-serving Chairwoman of the National Council at the Foundation for an Open Society - Romania (1998–2005, 2006–2007).
In 2000, she was appointed as Ad hoc judge, at the European Court of Human Rights in (Strasbourg).
She lectured in international human rights law, constitutional law, minority rights and women's rights, at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences (1997–2003). She also held classes on the protection of human rights in the context of international relations, at University of Bucharest, Faculty of History (2003–2004).
Between 2004 - 2005, Renate Weber was appointed as Advisor on constitutional and legislative matters to the President of Romania.
In 2007, she decided to enter politics and became a member of the National Liberal Party (Partidul National Liberal).
Renate Weber has become a member of the European Parliament in November 2007. She is a full member of the LIBE Committee and a substitute member of the AFET Committee.
She is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community. In this capacity, she led - in the autumn of 2008 - the EP Electoral Observation Mission in Ecuador.
Subsequently, she was appointed - by the European Commission - as Chief of the EU Election Observation Mission for the January 25, 2009 Constitutional Referendum in Bolivia and she was also Chief Observer for the EU EOM deployed for the presidential and legislative elections that took place in Bolivia on December 6, 2009.
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