Axel Voss is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament.
Education
From 1983 to 1990 Voss studied law at the Universities of Trier, Munich, Freiburg and Paris. After a traineeship at the Supreme Provincial Court of Appeal in Koblenz, he finished his second Staatsexamen, specialising in European law and international relations.
Career
He was elected on the Christian Democratic Union ticket and sits with the European People"s Party group. Education and Private In 1990 he took his first Staatsexamen (a German government licensing examination), specialising in European and international law. Beginning in 1994 he worked as a lawyer and was Citizens" adviser of the European Commission at the regional Commission Representation in Bonn.
From 2000 to 2009 he taught European affairs at the RheinAhrCampus in Remagen of the University of Applied Sciences Koblenz.
Voss is married and has two daughters. Since 2005 he has been deputy district chair of the Christian Democratic Union in the Middle Rhine area.
In 2009 Voss was elected to the European Parliament. In addition he is a substitute to the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on Petitions and the Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries.
On the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Voss serves as shadow rapporteur for the center-right European People's Party (EPP) on a directive on the use of passenger name record (National Revolutionary Party) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime.
In 2014, when Edward Snowden testified before the European Parliament, Voss implied that Snowden had endangered innocents" lives and potentially collaborated with terrorists as well as the Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies. Evangelical Working Group of the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union), Member
German-Australian-Pacific Lawyers Association, Member
Rotary International, Member.
Politics
Voss is a member of the German Christian Democratic Union and was chair of the Bonn affiliation from 2004 to 2009.
Membership
He is member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Delegation to the European Union-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. He also serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.