Frieda Brepoels

Frederika Marie Joseph "Frieda" Brepoels (Dutch: [ˈfriːdaː ˈbreːpuls]; born 7 May 1955 in Mopertingen) is a Belgian politician of N-VA, former mayor of Bilzen and former Member of the European Parliament for Flanders.

[1] Brepoels started her political career in the People's Union (Volksunie, VU).

From 1987 until 2003, she was member of the Chamber of Representatives, except for the period 1991–1999 when she was deputy in the provincial executive of Limburg.

She became Member of the European Parliament in 2004 as a substitute for Geert Bourgeois, who did not take up his seat.

In the European Parliament, she sat on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and she was a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community.