Nationality Germany Profession Lawyer | Name Axel Voss Role German Politician | |
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Political party Christian Democratic Union Education University of Trier, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Profiles | ||
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Axel Voss (born 7 April 1963) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, part of the European People's Party.
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Axel voss
Education and Private Life
From 1983 to 1990 Voss studied law at the Universities of Trier, Munich, Freiburg and Paris. In 1990 he took his first Staatsexamen (a German government licensing examination), specialising in European and international law. After a traineeship at the Supreme Provincial Court of Appeal in Koblenz, he finished his second Staatsexamen, specialising in European law and international relations. Beginning in 1994 he worked as a lawyer and was Citizens' adviser of the European Commission at the regional Commission Representation in Bonn. From 2000 to 2009 he taught European affairs at the RheinAhrCampus in Remagen of the University of Applied Sciences Koblenz.
Voss is married and has two daughters.
Political career
Voss is a member of the German CDU and was chair of the Bonn affiliation from 2004 to 2009. Since 2005 he has been deputy district chair of the CDU in the Middle Rhine area.
In 2009 Voss was elected to the European Parliament. He is member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. In addition he is a substitute to the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on Petitions and the Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries. He also serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.
On the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Voss is the European People's Party Group’s coordinator. He serves as his group’s shadow rapporteur for the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) on a directive on the use of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime.
In 2014, when Edward Snowden testified before the European Parliament, Voss implied that Snowden had endangered innocents' lives and potentially collaborated with terrorists as well as the Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies.