Markus Ferber

Markus Ferber
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1994
Personal details
Born Markus Ferber
(1965-01-15) 15 January 1965
Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party  German:
Christian Social Union
 EU:
European People's Party
Alma mater Technische Universität München

Markus Ferber (born 15 January 1965 in Augsburg, Bavaria) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria.

Education

Career

Member of the European Parliament, 1994–present

A member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and of the Bureau of the European People's Party, Ferber is currently a Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on which he has been serving since 2009. He is also a full member of the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect and a substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism. In 2016, Ferber joined the Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) that will investigate the Panama Papers revelations and tax avoidance schemes more broadly.

In his capacity as member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Ferber led the negotiations on an update of securities trading rules, known as Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), for the European Parliament from 2012 to 2013.[1]

In addition to his committee assignments, Ferber serves as a member of the European Parliament's Sky and Space Intergroup (SSI).[2]

Previously, Ferber was a member of the Committee on Budgets between 1999 and 2009 as well as of the Committee on Budgetary Control between 2004 and 2009. Prior to that, he served on the Committee on Research, Technological Development and Energy between 1994 and 1997.

In early 2014, the CSU chose Ferber to lead the party list for the 2014 European elections.[3] He was replaced as leader of the CSU MEPs by Angelika Niebler following the party’s poor showing in the elections.[4]

Role in national politics

In 2010, Ferber was a CSU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany. In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 German elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on banking regulation and the Eurozone, led by Herbert Reul and Martin Schulz.

Political positions

Amid the 2012 Romanian constitutional crisis, which had been sparked by a dispute between President Traian Băsescu and Prime Minister Victor Ponta, Ferber said he would initiate the suspension of Romania in the European Council for "lack of minimum standards functioning the legal state."[5]

Other activities

Recognition

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)

References

  1. ↑ Huw Jones (November 21, 2015), EU reaches outline deal to cap "dark pool" share trading Reuters.
  2. ↑ Members of the European Parliament's Sky and Space Intergroup (SSI) European Parliament.
  3. ↑ Dave Keating (January 27, 2014), German parties select European Parliament candidates European Voice.
  4. ↑ Toby Vogel (November 20, 2014), Manfred Weber – calm conciliator European Voice.
  5. ↑ Christoph Hasselbach (July 17, 2012), EU demands explanation from Romania Deutsche Welle.


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