Willem Schuth is a Dutch

Netherlands

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 politician

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 and former Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 for Germany

Germany

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 with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

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 and sits on the European Parliament

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's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

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.

He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism

Committee on Transport and Tourism

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, a member of the Delegation for relations with Switzerland

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, Iceland

Iceland

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 and Norway and to the European Economic Area

European Economic Area

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 (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Turkey

Turkey

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 Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Education

• 1975-1976 military service in the Netherlands
• 1977-1979 worked in the Netherlands Defence Ministry
• 1979-2004 Netherlands Defence Ministry official, Seedorf Barracks, Germany
• 1996: Joined the FDP
  Free Democratic Party (Germany)
  The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government...
  
  
• since 1998 Elbe-Weser FDP District Vice-Chairman
• since 2001 Member of the Federal Committee on International Policy
• since 2002 Member of the Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony
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   FDP Regional Executive
• since 2003 Member of the ELDR
  European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
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   Council
• Member of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland
  Naturschutzbund Deutschland
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  (NABU) (nature conservation)

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