Philip Claeys (; born 24 May 1965) is a Belgian

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-based politician for the

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Political career

Claeys was a

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from 2003 to 2014. He participated in the international

counter-jihad Counter-jihad (also known as the counter-jihad movement) is a self-titled Islamophobia, anti-Muslim political movement loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, demonstrators, and other activists across the Western world. Proponents are ...

conferences in Brussels in 2007 and in 2012. Since late 2010, he was a board member of the eurosceptic party

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, which was dissolved in 2016. From 2017 to 2019 he was the secretary-general of the

Europe of Nations and Freedom Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF; , ENL) was a far-right Political groups of the European Parliament, political group that operated in the European Parliament between 2015 and 2019. It was composed of 37 MEPs and only existed during the Eighth ...

group, and since 2019 he has been secretary of the

Identity and Democracy Identity and Democracy (ID; ) was a political group of the European Parliament during the Ninth European Parliament term, launched on 13 June 2019. It comprised Far right politics, far-right, Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Euroscept ...

group.ID is nieuwe eurorechtse fractie, Vlaming Philip Claeys is fractiesecretaris
reactnieuws, 14 september 2019.

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Personal Website
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