Claude Turmes | |
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_CROPPED.jpg) Turmes in 2017 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2009 – 19 June 2018 | |
| Succeeded by | Tilly Metz |
| Constituency | Luxembourg |
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| Born | (1960-11-26)26 November 1960 (age 64) Diekirch, Luxembourg |
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Claude Turmes (born 26 November 1960) is a Luxembourgish politician who served as aMember of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until 2018. He is a member of theGreen Party, part of theEuropean Green Party.
Turmes was elected as a member of theEuropean Parliament in the1999 European elections. In parliament, he first served on theCommittee on Budgetary Control before joining theCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy in 2002. In this capacity, he served asrapporteur on the 2008 draft of theEU Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC[1] and on theEU Energy Efficiency Directive 2012.[2] Between 2007 and 2008, he was a member of the Temporary Committee on Climate Change. He also represented the Parliament at the2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference inPoznań,[3] and the2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference inMarrakesh.[4]
In 2011, Turmes was part of a cross-party working group headed byJerzy Buzek, thePresident of the European Parliament, to draft reforms on lobbying and MEPs’ rules of conduct.[5] In addition to his committee assignments, Turmes was a member of theEuropean Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights[6] and of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.[7]
Turmes became Secretary of State for Sustainable Development and Infrastructures for the Luxembourg government in June 2018, and served as Minister for Energy and Minister for Spatial Planning from 5 December 2018 until 2023.[8]
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