Axel Voss
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Born | University of Munich | 7 April 1963
Profession | Lawyer |
Website | axel-voss-europa.de |
Axel Voss (born 7 April 1963,
In addition to his parliamentary mandate, Voss has also been working as a lawyer with Bietmann, a law firm in Cologne, since 2021.[3]
Life, education and early career
Voss is Evangelical-Lutheran, married and has two daughters.[4] From 1983 to 1990, he studied law at the Universities of Trier, Munich, Freiburg, thereby specialized in European and international law, made a language stay in Paris and eventually passed the first Staatsexamen in 1990.[5] After assisting the UN Department of Technical Cooperation for Development in New York and a traineeship at the Supreme Provincial Court of Appeal in Koblenz, he finished his second Staatsexamen in 1994 and started to work as a lawyer.[4]
Later that year, Voss became the Citizens' adviser of the European Commission at the regional Commission Representation in Bonn.[2] From 2000 to 2008, he taught European affairs at the RheinAhrCampus in Remagen of the University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz.[5]
Political career
Voss joined the German CDU in 1996 and chaired the Bonn affiliation from 2004 to 2009. Since 2011 he has been the district chair of the CDU in the Middle Rhine area.[6] Voss has also been a Member of the European Parliament for this constituency (which includes Bonn, Cologne, Leverkusen, Rhein-Sieg- and Rhein-Erft-Kreis) since the 2009 European elections.[4][7]
In his third parliamentary term from 2019 to 2024, he serves as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), member of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA), deputy chairman of the delegation for Australia and New Zealand (DANZ) and substitute member of the delegation for South Asia (DSAS).[1]
Voss has been the
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In early 2020, media reported on Voss' warning that Europe would become a "digital colony of the USA or China" if the Member States could not agree on radical countermeasures and are not willing to expand the Digital Single Market massively.[17] "Europe must pursue a third - a European - path of digitalization, which is based on our values in data protection and data sovereignty" Voss said at the DLD conference in Munich.[18] He later published a 19-page digital manifesto[19] with a series of concrete proposals to the European institutions in order to strengthen Europe's digital sovereignty and geopolitical competitiveness.[20]
Other activities
Corporate boards
- Deutsche Telekom, Member of the Data Privacy Advisory Board[3][21]
Non-profit organizations
- Europa-Union Deutschland, Chairman of the Bonn/Rhein-Sieg Chapter
- Mérite Européen Friendship group Germany, Vice-president
- Senator of SME Europe, the official business association of the European People's Party
- Rotary International, Member
- European Logistics Platform, Member of the Advisory Board[22]
Recognition
In 2019, Voss was the recipient of the Digital Single Market Award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards.[23] Voss was also the recipient of the Digital Strategy and Single Marker Award at 2022 MEP Awards ceremony[24]
References
- ^ a b "Home | Axel VOSS | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Axel VOSS - MEP | EPP Group in the European Parliament". www.eppgroup.eu. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ a b Sarah Anne Aarup (8 March 2023), MEPs hold ethically slippery side jobs — but they’re perfectly legal Politico Europe.
- ^ a b c "Wahlkreis". Axel Voss. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Curriculum vitae | Axel VOSS | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Vorstand". CDU Bezirksverband Mittelrhein (in German). Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Axel Voss". CDU/CSU-Gruppe in der EVP-Fraktion (in German). 20 July 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Reports - as rapporteur | Axel VOSS | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "7th parliamentary term | Axel VOSS | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "8th parliamentary term | Axel VOSS | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ Mia Bartoloni (October 2, 2020) Movers and Shakers, 2 October 2020 The Parliament Magazine.
- ^ "Edward Snowden's Testimony to the European Parliament on NSA Spying and its Consequences". www.independentsciencenews.org. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "European Parliament approves new copyright rules for the internet | News | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. 26 March 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Neue EU-Regeln zum Datenschutz nicht überinterpretieren". CDU/CSU-Gruppe in der EVP-Fraktion (in German). 18 May 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "FEDMA Held a Debate on EU Digital Legislations Impact on Users and The Data-Driven Industry – Fedma". www.fedma.org. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "ePR EDRi position" (PDF).
- ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ Kroker, Michael. "Digitalkonferenz DLD: Auf der Suche nach dem europäischen Weg in die Digitalisierung". www.wiwo.de (in German). Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Digital manifesto 2020 (engl.)" (PDF).
- ^ Grüll, Philipp (22 January 2020). "MEP Axel Voss publishes EU digital manifesto, warns of EU's 'digital dependency'". www.euractiv.com. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ Data Privacy Advisory Board Deutsche Telekom.
- ^ Advisory Board European Logistics Platform.
- ^ Hutchinson, Lorna (21 March 2019). "MEP Awards 2019: Heartfelt reactions from our winners". The Parliament Magazine. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ "MEP Awards: Winners 2022". The Parliament Magazine. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2023..