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{{Infobox politician
| name        = Philip Claeys
| image       =
| caption     =
| office      = [[Member of the European Parliament]]
| term_start  = 16 June 2003
| term_end    = 30 June 2014
| birth_name  =
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1965|5|24}}
| birth_place = [[Ghent]], [[Belgium]]
| nationality = Belgian
| party       = [[Vlaams Belang]] (since 2004)<br>[[Vlaams Blok]] (before 2004)
| occupation  = Politician
}}
'''Philip Claeys''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈfilɪp ˈklaːis|lang}}; born 24 May 1965) is a Belgian [[Flanders]]-based politician for the [[Vlaams Belang]].

==Political career==
Claeys was a [[Member of the European Parliament]] from 2003 to 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/24030/PHILIP_CLAEYS/history/7#detailedcardmep|title=Philip CLAEYS|work=European Parliament|date=24 May 1965 |accessdate=27 December 2022}}</ref> He participated in the international [[counter-jihad]] conferences in Brussels in 2007<ref>{{cite book|url=https://expo.se/wp-content/uploads/expo_migration/counterjihadrorelsen_en_del_av_den_antimuslimska_rorelsen_2012.pdf|title=Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön|first=Martha|last=Hannus|pages=67, 83|year=2012|publisher=Expo Research|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203232308/https://expo.se/wp-content/uploads/expo_migration/counterjihadrorelsen_en_del_av_den_antimuslimska_rorelsen_2012.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2024}}</ref> and in 2012.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjolDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|page=91|title=Understanding the Populist Shift: Othering in a Europe in Crisis|first1=Gabriella|last1=Lazaridis|first2=Giovanna|last2=Campani|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2016|isbn=9781317326069}}</ref> Since late 2010, he was a board member of the eurosceptic party [[European Alliance for Freedom]], which was dissolved in 2016.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.eurallfree.org/?q=node/65 |title=About EAF |publisher=European Alliance for Freedom |accessdate=7 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326175304/http://www.eurallfree.org/?q=node/65 |archive-date=26 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> From 2017 to 2019 he was the secretary-general of the [[Europe of Nations and Freedom]] group,<ref>[https://www.vlaamsbelang.org/gerolf-annemans-tot-europees-partijvoorzitter-verkozen-beweging-europa-naties-vrijheid/ Gerolf Annemans verkozen tot Europees partijvoorzitter van de beweging Europa van Naties en Vrijheid] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232350/https://www.vlaamsbelang.org/gerolf-annemans-tot-europees-partijvoorzitter-verkozen-beweging-europa-naties-vrijheid/ |date=13 January 2019 }}, vlaamsbelang.org, 16 december 2017.</ref> and since 2019 he has been secretary of the [[Identity and Democracy]] group.<ref>[https://reactnieuws.net/2019/06/14/id-is-nieuwe-eurorechtse-fractie-vlaming-philip-claeys-is-fractiesecretaris/ ID is nieuwe eurorechtse fractie, Vlaming Philip Claeys is fractiesecretaris], reactnieuws, 14 september 2019.</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051212001840/http://www.philipclaeys.be/ Personal Website]
* {{MEP}}
* {{C-SPAN|9277481}}
* {{Declaration of financial interests of the 6th term|24030_28-09-2004.PDF|nl}}

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[[Category:1965 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Counter-jihad activists]]
[[Category:Politicians from Ghent]]
[[Category:Vlaams Belang MEPs]]
[[Category:Vlaams Belang politicians]]
[[Category:MEPs for Belgium 1999–2004]]
[[Category:MEPs for Belgium 2004–2009]]
[[Category:MEPs for Belgium 2009–2014]]


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