Ole Krarup is a Danish

Politics of Denmark

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 EU

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 politician

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 and former professor of law at the University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen

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From 1994 through 2006 he was Member of the European Parliament

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 with the Folkebevægelsen mod EU (People's Movement against the EU), Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and sat on
the European Parliament

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's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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 and its Committee on Budgetary Control

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. Krarup was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs

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 and a member of the
Delegation for relations with South Africa.

Krarup resigned as an MEP on 1 January 2007 due to medical consequences after a traffic accident while riding his bicycle in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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 in 2006. He is succeeded by MEP Søren Bo Søndergaard.

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