Career
There she presented the program sponsored Limburg Leeft (translated: Limburg Lives) about residency and life in Limburg. In the 2009 European Parliament elections, Stassen was ranked as fourth on the Party for Freedom (Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Reform and Freedom)) list. On 10 December 2010, it was announced that Stassen would run for Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Reform and Freedom) party leader in the province of Limburg in the 2011 provincial elections.
She was so elected and retained her membership of the European Parliament.
On 21 March 2014, she left the Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Reform and Freedom) after allegedly discriminatory remarks by Geert Wilders about Moroccans. She stayed on until the European Parliament elections in May 2014, but immediately left the States-Provincial in Limburg, returning her seat to the Party for Freedom.
Stassen then stood in the 2014 European elections for the constituency of South East England in the United Kingdom as the number one candidate for the Eurosceptic party An Independence from Europe. She was not elected. In December 2014, Stassen announced that she had joined the party Foreign the Netherlands, which had been founded by two fellow former Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (Party for Reform and Freedom) members earlier that year.
Laurence Stassen is married with two children.
She lives in Echt.