Education
Leiden University.
Member of the European Parliament politician
Leiden University.
He was elected to the European Parliament for the Party for Freedom (Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Reform and Freedom)) at the 2009 election. He resigned as an Member of the European Parliament on 17 August 2011, having caused a car crash when drunken driving, and was replaced by Auke Zijlstra. He returned to the European Parliament on 14 December 2011, after the Treaty of Lisbon expanded the Parliament by eighteen MEPs.
lieutenant was initially disputed Patricia van der Kammen should be elected.
However, the Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Reform and Freedom) did not allow him to rejoin their delegation, and went on as an independent. In 2012, Van der Stoep founded his own party, Article 50, with the intention of participating in the European Parliament election, 2014.
The name refers to article 50 of the Maastricht Treaty, of which the first sentence is "Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements." In the 2014 European Parliament elections the party did not earn a seat. Daniël van der Stoep has been very public in regards to his salary and expenditures granted by the European Parliament.
In a European Union documentary by Peter Vlemmix, he has reported his monthly salary to be 8000 Euros plus the allowance to request 300 euros daily without the need of explaining, other forms of benefits and expenditures are also included.
In another Youtube video featuring der Stoep, he has explained and demonstrated the luxury and the expenses he and the other members of parliament enjoy. He has demonstrated a wish to reduce the salaries of the members of the European Parliament.