European Parliament Activity
Renate Weber has become a member of the European Parliament in November 2007. She is a full member of the LIBE Committee and a substitute member of the AFET Committee.
She is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community. In this capacity, she led - in the autumn of 2008 - the EP Electoral Observation Mission in Ecuador.
Subsequently, she was appointed - by the European Commission - as Chief of the EU Election Observation Mission for the January 25, 2009 Constitutional Referendum in Bolivia and she was also Chief Observer for the EU EOM deployed for the presidential and legislative elections that took place in Bolivia on December 6, 2009.
In May 2010, Renate Weber was invited by the EC to lead the EU EOM deployed for the May–September 2010 electoral cycle in Burundi, Africa.
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