Paul Tang (politician)

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Paul Tang

Paul Tang in 2014
Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1 March 2007 – 17 June 2010
Personal details
Born (1967-04-23) 23 April 1967
Haarlem, Netherlands
Political party Labour Party
Alma mater University of Amsterdam

Paul Johannes George Tang (born 23 April 1967) is a Dutch politician, he has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Labour Party representing the Netherlands since July 2014. Between 2007 and 2010 he had been member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands.

Early life

Tang studied economics at the University of Amsterdam between 1985 and 1991, graduating cum laude. Afterwards he worked as assistant at Tilburg University and as trainee researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Between 1995 and 2005 he was employee at the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. In 2001 he earned a doctorate in economic sciences from the University of Amsterdam. He moved on to the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs where he was deputy director of General Economic Policies between September 2005 and March 2007.[1]

Political career

House of Representatives

In the Netherlands general election of 2006 he was on the candidate list of the Labour Party. He was not directly elected, but after some Labour members of the House of Representatives move towards the cabinet Tang took up membership of the House. In the House he dealt with fiscal and financial policies.[1] Among them was the Icesave dispute and the role of the De Nederlandsche Bank in it.[2] In 2008 Tang was verbally reprimanded by President of the House of Representatives, Gerdi Verbeet, after speaking publicly about the then still secret Miljoenennota (Dutch government financial prospects). In 2009 he leaked some of the financial prospect papers to RTL Nieuws. The Labour Party took away his speaking rights on his topics in the House for one month.[2] In 2010 Tang chose not to be reelectable in the next elections.[3]

European Parliament

In the internal Labour Party elections Tang was chosen to be lijsttrekker (top party candidate) in the European Parliament elections of 2014, he won 52% of the votes.[3] In the May 2014 elections Tang was elected to the European Parliament.[1]

Prior to being elected, in March 2014, Tang argued that top EU officials should not earn more than ten times the wage of the lowest paid EU employees.[4] He also argued that the EU was impeding the economic growth of Europe, and argued for stricter supervision on banks in the EU and for reforms in the sector.[5]

In the European Parliament he is member of the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. More recently, he joined the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect in 2015. He also serves as vice-chair on the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr. P.J.G. (Paul) Tang" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Tang schond al eerder Prinsjesdag-afspraken" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 Nando Kasteleijn (28 November 2013). "Paul Tang lijsttrekker PvdA bij verkiezingen Europa - 'keuze logisch'" (in Dutch). NRC. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "PvdA stelt maximumsalaris EU-ambtenaren voor" (in Dutch). Nu.nl. 30 March 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Paul Tang is vijfde PvdA'er die partij wil leiden in Europa" (in Dutch). Trouw. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Paul Tang". European Parliament. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
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