Ole Krarup is a Danish European Union politician and former professor of law at the University of Copenhagen.
Career
Krarup resigned as an Member of the European Parliament on 1 January 2007 due to medical consequences after a traffic accident while riding his bicycle in Strasbourg in 2006. He is succeeded by Member of the European Parliament Søren Bo Søndergaard.
Membership
From 1994 through 2006 he was Member of the European Parliament with the Folkebevægelsen mod European Union (People"s Movement against the European Union), Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and sat on the European Parliament"s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and its Committee on Budgetary Control. Krarup was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with South Africa.