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Ole Krarup

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Dr
Ole Krarup
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1994–2007
ConstituencyDenmark
Personal details
Born(1935-03-17)17 March 1935
Aarhus
Died7 October 2017(2017-10-07) (aged 82)
NationalityDanish
Political partyPeople's Movement against the EU
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
ProfessionProfessor, law
Websitewww.olekrarup.dk

Ole Krarup (17 March 1935 – 7 October 2017) was a Danish EU politician and former professor of law at the University of Copenhagen.

Political career

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From 1994 through 2006 he was Member of the European Parliament with the Folkebevægelsen mod EU (People's Movement against the EU), Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and its Committee on Budgetary Control. Krarup was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with South Africa.

Krarup resigned as an MEP on 1 January 2007 due to medical consequences after a traffic accident while riding his bicycle in Strasbourg in 2006. He was succeeded by MEP Søren Bo Søndergaard.

Death

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Krarup died on 7 October 2017 at the age of 82.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ole Krarup er død (in Danish)
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