José Manuel Fernandes
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Portugal
Assumed office
1 July 2009
Mayor of Vila Verde
In office
1997–2009
Personal details
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Alma materUniversity of Minho

José Manuel Fernandes is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 elections.[1] Earlier in his career, he was Mayor of Vila Verde in northern Portugal.[2]

Political career

In parliament, Fernandes is a member of the Committee on Budgets. He is also his parliamentary group's coordinator on the committee.[3][4] In this capacity, he was the parliament's rapporteur on the 2012 and 2016 annual budgets as well as the European Fund for Strategic Investments.

In addition to his committee assignments, Fernandes is part of the parliament's delegations to Brazil, for relations with Mercosur and to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.[5] He had previously been a member of the delegations to China (2009–2014), to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2014–2019) and for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2014–2019).[6] He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas,[7] the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability[8] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.[9]

Following the 2019 elections, Fernandes was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's five-year work program on economic and fiscal policies as well as trade.[10]

Recognition

In 2020, Fernandes was voted the most influential Portuguese MEP of 2020.[11]

References

  1. ↑ His MEP profile
  2. ↑ Sofia Diogo Mateus (11 January 2021), Portuguese people to know in the Brussels Bubble Politico Europe.
  3. ↑ Ryan Heath, Maïa de La Baume, Harry Cooper and David M. Herszenhorn (1 November 2016), MEPs dig their heels in over Oettinger Politico Europe.
  4. ↑ Koert Debeuf (22 November 2019), The EU debate on its own resources EUobserver.
  5. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes European Parliament.
  6. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes European Parliament.
  7. ↑ Members 2019-2024 European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas.
  8. ↑ Members of the Disability Intergroup - EPP European Disability Forum.
  9. ↑ MAC MEPs in the 2019-24 legislature Archived 31 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine MEPs Against Cancer.
  10. ↑ Florian Eder (June 13, 2019), POLITICO Brussels Playbook, presented by Google: Madrid’s moment — Parliament working groups sneak peak — Happy birthday, GDPR Politico Europe.
  11. ↑ Sofia Diogo Mateus (11 January 2021), Portuguese people to know in the Brussels Bubble Politico Europe.
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