Inese Vaidere

Inese Vaidere
Member of the European Parliament for Latvia
In office
20 July 2004  30 June 2014
In office
1 November 2014  present
Personal details
Born (1952-09-03) 3 September 1952
Jelgava, Latvian SSR
Political party For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (1998–2008)
Civic Union (2008–2011)
Unity (2008–present)
Alma mater University of Latvia
Occupation Economist
Website www.inese-vaidere.lv

Inese Vaidere (born 3 September 1952) is a Latvian politician and a Member of the European Parliament.

Political career

Role in national politics

Vaidere was Minister of State for the Environment in the Krištopans cabinet from 1998-1999, Vice-Mayor of Riga from 2001-2002[1] and a member of the Saeima from 2002-2004.[2]

Member of the European Parliament, 2004–present

Vaidere was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 from the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK list and sat with the Union for a Europe of Nations group. In 2009 she was elected from the Civic Union list and sat with the European People's Party group.

Between 2004 and 2014, Vaidere was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. In 2013, she drafted the parliament’s report on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on human rights, which calls for the EU to help developing countries create social-protection schemes.[3]

In 2014, Vaidere was placed 6th on the Unity list and was preferenced 5th by voters.[4] Unity won 4 of Latvia's European Parliament seats and she was not elected. However the first candidate elected on the list, Valdis Dombrovskis, became the European Commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue on 1 November 2014 and ceased to be a MEP. Vaidere, as next in line on the Unity list, replaced him in the Parliament.[5]

Vaidere is currently a member of the Committee on Budgets. In addition to her committee assignments, she is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime)[6] and the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda.[7]

Political positions

Vaidere is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[8]

In 2015, news media reported that Vaidere was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the European Union who are not allowed to enter the country.[9][10]

References


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