Marieke Ehlers


Marieke Roos is a Dutch educator and politician of the Party for Freedom who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.

Biography

Early life and career

Ehlers was born and raised in South Africa. She graduated from The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands with a bachelor's degree in international and European law. After this, she studied at the University of Kent for a master's degree in international law and international relations and then completed an LL.D. in law at the University of Johannesburg, with a thesis on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy in international law, while working part-time as a lecturer. She subsequently worked as a lecturer in Johannesburg, and a law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She later moved back to Europe and worked as a policy advisor in the European Parliament for six years.

Political career

Ehlers was elected to the European Parliament in the June 2024 election for the PVV, which subsequently joined the Patriots for Europe group. She is on the following European Parliament committees: