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Per Clausen

Politician

Per Clausen is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Per Clausen · Пер Клаусен				[sources]
Birth date	1955-02-20				[sources]
Place of birth	Kongsvinger				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Denmark				[sources]
Country	Denmark · European Union				[sources]
Citizenship	Denmark				[sources]
Classification	International organization (current) · National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Per				[sources]
Last name	Clausen				[sources]
Political association	Red–Green Alliance				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q12331300				[sources]
Position	Folketing (member, 2005-2007) · Folketing (member, 2007-2011) · Folketing (member, 2011-2015) · Member of the European Parliament (2024-) · member of the Folketing				[sources]
Education	Aalborg University				[sources]
Source link	www.europarl.europa.eu				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-25	Last processed	2026-02-25	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Danish politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Memberships
Organization	Role	Start date	End date
The Left group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL	-	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of leadership of Enhedslisten	2022-07-06	-

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,230

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,122

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland PEPs1,958

Official PEP list for Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland

Denmark · Finanstilsynet

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,644

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

European Parliament Members934

A set of all the members of the European Union's parliament, which are elected per member state.

European Union · EP

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,383

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,870

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: dk-pep-per-clausen · eu-meps-257023 · evpo-1263485c-0be4-4ee2-866e-d3889629c9c2

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