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- Mark_Demesmaeker abstract "Mark Demesmaeker (Dutch: [mɑrk dəˈmɛsmakər]; born 12 September 1958 in Halle, Flemish Brabant) is a Belgian politician affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA).He was elected as a member of the Flemish Parliament in 2004 and reelected in 2009. In 2013, Demesmaeker left the Flemish Parliament to replace Frieda Brepoels (who became mayor of Bilzen) as member of the European Parliament. He was directly elected in 2014 to keep this position.In 2006, he was elected to the City Council of Halle and became alderman. In 2012, he was reelected with the most preference votes, but a coalition was formed without his party.Previously he had been a teacher as well as a television presenter for VRT and vtm.Member of the European Parliament\tFollowing the resignation of Frieda Brepoels, who was elected to the post of mayor in Bilzen, Mark Demesmaeker joined the European Parliament as N-VA MEP in February 2013. He was replaced in the Flemish Parliament by Piet De Bruyn. From February 2013 until May 2014, he sat with the Group of the Greens and the European Free Alliance (a group made up of ecologists and moderate regionalist and independentist parties with a centrist or liberal outlook).\tIn the European elections of 2014, Demesmaeker was re-elected with a resounding majority with 125 000 preferential votes. The N-VA received the greatest share of votes across the Flanders region and was able to send 4 MEPs to the European Parliament, the single largest amount of MEPs ever sent by one party in Flanders to the European Parliament. In June the party moved to the European Conservatives and Reformists group, where Demesmaeker is head of the N-VA delegation.\tIn the European Parliament Demesmaeker is a full member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, where he focuses on biodiversity (rapporteur) and circular economy (ECR shadow rapporteur). He also sits on the subcommittee on Human Rights, where he is the coordinator for the ECR group. Human Rights and Self-Determination\tMark Demesmaeker is an ardent defender of universal human rights and of the basic principles of democratic government and self-determination. In the European Parliament he strives to give a voice not only to Flanders, but also to democratic regionalists and nationalists from Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque Country and elsewhere across Europe. \tIn general terms, he lends his support to the drive to obtain greater self-determination and to gain recognition the historic languages, identity and cultural specificity of minority groups and small nations. He has a long standing interest in Ireland and Irish affairs and since his arrival in the Parliament, Demesmaeker has been particularly involved with the Basque Friendship Group, an informal group of MEPs that has been working towards a peaceful resolution of conflict in the Basque Country for several years now.Ukraine-Russia Relations \tThe other major concern pursued by Demesmaeker since arriving in the European Parliament has been his support for a peaceful resolution to the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. In addition to his responsibilities on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Demesmaker is the vice-president of the informal group 'Friends of European Ukraine'. \tPresent in Kiev during the Maidan Square demonstrations, he responded immediately to the protests resulting from President Yanukovitch's cancellation of the signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. He has since followed events in Ukraine closely, travelling several times to witness events on the ground. Since the outbreak of the outright hostilities between Ukraine and Russian backed separatists, he has visited the front-line twice, visits that have been widely reported across theinternational media. Predictably, his reports alongside his unwavering support for the Ukrainian people have not been viewed favourably by the Kremlin. On 28 May 2015, MarkDemesmaeker was placed on President Putin's black list of “undesirables” on Russian territory, rendering travel to Russia impossible under the present regime. Sometime later, by the Decree of 21 of August 2015, Demesmaeker was decorated with the \"Order of Merit' by the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, for the personal contribution he has made, and continues to make, to supporting Ukraine on its path to reform. This contribution includes his unwavering denunciation of Russian aggression as well as the central role he has played in strengthening dialogue between Ukraine and the EU.".
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- Mark_Demesmaeker caption "Portrait of Mark Demesmaeker after a tour of the Parliament building in Strasbourg.".
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- Mark_Demesmaeker termEnd "2013-01-31".
- Mark_Demesmaeker termStart "2013-02-01".
- Mark_Demesmaeker termStart "June 2004".
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