Mogens Niels Juel Camre (29 March 1936 – 5 December 2016) was a Danish politician and

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for the

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, a vice-chairman of the

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and sat on the

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and its

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. He was also substitute for the

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Controversy

Camre made statements on several occasions which occasioned controversy. Among other things, he stated that This statement was interpreted by several other MEPs, among them

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, an Austrian Social-Democrat and Renate Weber, a Romanian MEP, to mean that Camre had stated that Danes were more clever than Bulgarians and Romanians. On 13 November 2007 he was

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, but only two days later announced that he declined his seat in parliament because it would mean that he couldn't finish his term in the European Parliament. In 2015 he participated in a Pegida Denmark demonstration that gathered 200 demonstrators.

Education

* 1961: Bachelor of commerce (accountancy) * 1967: Master's degree in

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Career

* 1967-1968 and 1987-1995: Civil servant, Budget Department of Finance Ministry * 1974-1989: Member of Tax Tribunal * since 1980: Chairman of the Board of KTAS (1982-1992) and board member of a number of other companies * 1985-1987: Member of the Board of Governors of Denmark's National Bank * 1995-1999: Budgetary Adviser with Denmark's Permanent Representation to the EU * 1962-1966 and 1968-1987: Member of Executive

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* 1967-1968 and 1981-1982: Member of National Executive of Social Democratic Party * 1981-1982: Member of Danish TUC's Executive Committee * 1981-1982: Member of the executive committee of the Labour Movement's Economic Council * 1968-1987: Member of the Folketing * Member of several Folketing committees, including the Political and Economic Affairs Committee * Chairman of the Folketing's Environment and Planning Committee * Vice-chairman of the Folketing's Market Relations and Finance Committees * since 1999:

* since 1999: Vice-chairman of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group

Quotes

Mogens Camre, Danish People's Party's annual meeting (September 16, 2001):

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