Paulo Rangel

Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel (born 18 February 1968 in Vila Nova de Gaia) is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. He also serves as vice-president of the European People's Party under the leadership of its president Donald Tusk.[1]

For the Brazilian association football player, see Paulo Rangel (footballer).
Paulo Rangel
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 July 2009
ConstituencyPortugal
Personal details
Born
Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel

(1968-02-18) 18 February 1968
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Political partyPSD
Alma materPortuguese Catholic University
ProfessionJurist

Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present

Rangel has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2009 European elections. Upon entering the parliament, he was chosen as one of the vice-presidents of the European People's Party Group.

Rangel has since been serving on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. In that capacity, he drafted the parliament’s 2010 report on the framework agreement between the European Commission and the Parliament, which demanded that MEPs should be allowed to participate in international negotiations that lead to accords that need parliamentary backing.[2] In 2014, he became the committee’s vice-chairman. In addition, he was elected chairman of the parliament’s delegation for relations with Brazil.

During his time in parliament, Rangel launched a bid for the leadership of the PSD in 2010 but ultimately came second and lost against Pedro Passos Coelho.[3]

Ahead of the 2014 European elections, the PSD named Rangel at the top of their list.[4] In the 2019 European elections, he served as his party’s lead candidate again.[5] He is a member of the Working Group on the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Within the European People's Party, Rangel has been chairing the Working Group on EPP Membership since 2016.[6] In this capacity, he notably took the decision to suspend the Fidesz party in 2020.[7] In 2021, he was also appointed to the EPP group's task force for proposing changes to its rules of procedure to allow for “the possibility of the collective termination of membership of a group of Members rather than just individual membership”, alongside Esteban González Pons, Jan Olbrycht, Esther de Lange and Othmar Karas.[8]

Other activities
  • RAR Group, Chairman of the Board of the Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Associação Comercial do Porto (ACP), Member of the Board

References
  1. Alexandra Brzozowski, Georgi Gotev and Jorge Valero (July 1, 2019), EU leaders entrenched over top jobs as EPP rebels against Merkel EurActiv.
  2. Constant Brand (October 13, 2010), Parliament stretches accord on working ties European Voice.
  3. Sofia Diogo Mateus (January 11, 2021), Portuguese people to know in the Brussels Bubble Politico Europe.
  4. Dave Keating (February 24, 2014), More Parliament candidates announced European Voice.
  5. Ivo Oliveira (May 20, 2019), Portugal eyes big EU cash prize Politico Europe.
  6. Migration crisis and EU-UK negotiations top the EPP Political Assembly’s agenda European People’s Party (EPP), press release of 29 January 2016.
  7. Sofia Diogo Mateus (January 11, 2021), Portuguese people to know in the Brussels Bubble Politico Europe.
  8. Mia Bartoloni (January 15, 2021), Movers and Shakers The Parliament Magazine.


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