Werner Langen is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate.
Career
Early beginnings
Between 1990 and 1991, Langen served as State Minister for Agriculture in the cabinet of Minister-President Carl-Ludwig Wagner of Rhineland-Palatinate. In this capacity, he has been in charge of steering key financial reforms through the European Parliament, including the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and the Insurance Mediation Directive (Institute for Management Development 2) in 2015. Between 2006 and 2012, Langen chaired the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) delegation to the European Parliament.
European Energy Forum (EEF), Member
German European Security Association (GESA), Founding Member
Kangaroo Group, Member
Ludwig Erhard Foundation, Member
Pollichia, Member.
Politics
From 1992 until 1993, he was a member of the Christian Democratic Union executive board under the party’s then-chairman, Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Membership
He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People"s Party. Member of the European Parliament, 1994-present
Langen has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 1994 elections. He has since been a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Between 1999 and 2009, Langen was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, where he served as the European People's Party rapporteur for public services whose remit included competition cases.
In this capacity, he once again served as a member of the Christian Democratic Union executive board, this time under the party’s current chairwoman, Chancellor Angela Merkel. Since 2014, Langen has been a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.