Joseph Daul was first elected in 1999 to the European Parliament

Joseph Daul was first elected in 1999 to the European Parliament

Source: Europarliament

Joseph Daul was born two years after World War II in Strasbourg.

Having studied agriculture he took over the small family farm at the age of 20 which is today still run by one of his two children. Early on he became active in farmers union and rural youth movements and later on farmers associations at national and European level.

Himself a cattle farmer, he was Chair of the National Federation of Beef Producers in France when the mad cow diseases affected European farmers and consumers.

Mr Daul was first elected in 1999 to the European Parliament where he became chair of the Agricultural Committee in 2002 and chair of the European People’s Party – European Democrats group in January 2007.

He speaks French and Alsatian, his native language, and is fluent in German.