Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck
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Anne-Marie Cécile J. Neyts-Uyttebroeck (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌnɛi̯tsˈœy̯təbruk]; born 17 June 1944) is a Belgian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats, member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, where she sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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Born | (1944-06-17) 17 June 1944 (age 79) Ixelles, Belgium |
Political party | Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats |
Alma mater | Free University of Brussels, Dutch |
She was a third time member of the European Parliament (since June 2004), and former president of the Liberal International, from September 1999 to 2005. She was elected president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party in September 2005, during a party congress in Bratislava, Slovakia.[1]
She was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and substitute for the Subcommittee on Security and Defense and a member of the Delegation for relations with NATO. She was the liberal spokesperson in the European Parliament on Foreign Affairs.[2] She left the European Parliament on 1 January 2015.