Anne Van Lancker (born on 4 March 1954 in Temse) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-East with the Democratici di Sinistra, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Temse is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of East Flanders. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... Elections to the European Parliament were held in Italy on June 13, 2004. ... Democrats of the Left (Italian: Democratici di Sinistra) is the main Italian left-wing political party, part of the Ulivo electorial coalition. ... Logo of the Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists (PES) Parti Socialiste Européen (PSE) Sozialdemokratische Partei Europas (SPE) Partido socialista Europeo (PSE) is a European political party whose members are the social democratic, socialist and labour parties of the European Union member states as well as Norway. ... The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ...

She is a substitute for the Committee on Development and a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. The ACP States are the countries that are signatories of the Lomé Convention. ...

Education

• 1978: Degree in sociology (sociology of work)
• 1988: Postgraduate degree in social legislation

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Career

• 1978-1979: Academic researcher, HIVA (Institute for Labour Studies)
• 1979-1984: Assistant at the faculty of work sociology, Catholic University of Louvain
• 1984-1988: Member of staff of research department at SEVI (Emile Vandervelde Institute Research and Documentation Centre)
• 1988-1989: Assistant, parliamentary SP group
• 1989-1990: Deputy head, office of the Flemish Minister of Employment
• 1990-1992: Head of office of the Flemish Minister of Employment
• 1992-1994: Head of private office to the Flemish Minister of Employment and Social Affairs
• since 1994: Member of the SP.A party bureau
• since 1999: Member of the SP.A executive
• since 1995: Member of party council, Ghent
• Member of the East Flanders provincial executive
• since 1999: Chairwoman of Zijkant
• since 1994: Member of the European Parliament

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium) The Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1425, is now the names of two Belgian universities, after the original university split in 1968: the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... A deputy can be: In politics, a member of many national legislatures, particularly those legislative bodies styled Chambers of Deputies. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... Elections to the European Parliament were held in Belgium on June 13, 2004. ...

External links

• Official website of Anne Van Lancker: www.annevanlancker.be (http://www.annevanlancker.be)
• Her page at her party (http://www.europa.s-p-a.be/europa/vertegenwoordigers/anne.asp)
• Her page at the belgien EU convention site (http://www.euconvention.be/participants/participantsdetailNL.asp?name=Anne%20Van%20Lancker)
• European Parliament biography of Anne Van Lancker (http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ilg=EN&iucd=1938)
• Declaration (http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6-dif/1938_30-06-2004.PDF) of financial interests (in Dutch; PDF file)