Ulrike Rodust | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 29 August 2008 – 2019 | |
Constituency | Germany |
Personal details | |
Born | Quakenbrück, Lower Saxony, Germany | 4 June 1949
Political party |
German Social Democratic Party European Union Party of European Socialists |
Ulrike Rodust (born 4 June 1949) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2008 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. [1]
Between 1993 and 2008, Rodust was a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein.
In addition to her committee assignments, Rodust serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara [2] and of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights. [3] She is one of the vice chairs of the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas. [4] In 2013, she represented the Parliament in the negotiations on a reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) for the budgetary period of 2014-2020. [5]
In May 2018, Rodust announced that she would not stand in the 2019 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term. [6]