Camre made statements on several occasions which occasioned controversy. Among other things, he stated that
"When I look at the voting rules, I see that countries like Romania and Bulgaria have many more votes than Denmark and Sweden and Finland, and I think - honestly speaking - that we are more clever than they are,"[1]
This statement was interpreted by several other MEPs, among them Hannes Swoboda, an Austrian Social-Democrat and Renate Weber, a Romanian MEP, to mean that Camre had stated that Danes were more clever than Bulgarians and Romanians.
On 13 November 2007 he was elected to the Danish parliament, but only two days later announced that he declined his seat in parliament because it would mean that he couldn't finish his term in the European Parliament.[2]
In 2015 he participated in a Pegida Denmark demonstration that gathered 200 demonstrators.[3]
Education
1961: Bachelor of commerce (accountancy)
1967: Master's degree in political and economic science
Career
1967-1968 and 1987-1995: Civil servant, Budget Department of Finance Ministry
1974-1989: Member of Tax Tribunal
since 1980: Chairman of the Board of KTAS (1982-1992) and board member of a number of other companies
1985-1987: Member of the Board of Governors of Denmark's National Bank
1995-1999: Budgetary Adviser with Denmark's Permanent Representation to the EU
"The Islamic political-religious movement deals with world supremacy, as did other fanatic political ideologies in history. This world supremacy they are not able to achieve by military means, but try to achieve by flooding the world with people. All western countries are infiltrated by the Muslims - and some of them speak to us nicely, while they wait to be many enough to have us removed - like in the Sudan, Indonesia, Nigeria and in the Balkans."
"There shall not be given concessions to Islamic demands of a place in Denmark - never shall there be built a mosque in our country."
