Frank Engel is a Member of the European Parliament from Luxembourg. He is a member of the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) in Luxembourg and of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament. He is also Honorary Consul of the Republic of Armenia to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Frank Engel completed his primary and secondary education in Diekirch, Luxembourg. He studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and received a maîtrise in private law from the Université de Metz. During his studies he became a member of the national committee of CSJ, the youth wing of CSV and was the president of several youth organisations, such as the National Union of Students, the National Youth Council and the European Federation of Christian Democrat Students (United Students for Europe).

After working as an independent consultant, he became the Editor in chief of CODEX, which is a website offering legal information. In 1999 he joined Jacques Santer’s cabinet in the European Parliament and in 2001 he became the Secretary General of the CSV parliamentary group. He held the position until 2009, when he stood for the European elections for the first time and was elected to the European Parliament.

Frank Engel is the youngest MEP from his country and the head of the Luxembourgish EPP delegation.

He has written three books on European issues: the ‘Europa in der großen Krise Ein Drama in drei Akten’ (‘Europe in the Great Crisis – A Drama in Three Acts’) in 2009, ‘Die Schulden überwinden – Ein Haushalt für den Euro’ (‘Overcome the debt – A budget for the euro’) in 2012 and ‘Projet de Manifeste pour les États-Unis d’Europe’ (‘Manifesto for a United States of Europe’) in 2013.

Since 2006 he is the Honorary Consul of Armenia to Luxembourg. He has also contributed to the book “Europe’s Next Avoidable War: Nagorno-Karabakh” with the chapter “The Karabakh Dilemma: Right to Self-Determination, Imperative of Territorial Integrity, or a Caucasian New Deal?”.

Through his works and his parliamentary work, Frank Engel strives to contribute to political, economic and social vision of an ambitious and bold Europe, a vision of a community ready to face future challenges and to maintain its position as a key international partner.

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• Europa in der großen Krise Ein Drama in drei Akten’ (‘Europe in the Great Crisis – A Drama in Three Acts’), 2009
• Die Schulden überwinden – Ein Haushalt für den Euro’ (‘Overcome the debt – A budget for the euro’), 2012
• Projet de Manifeste pour les États-Unis d’Europe’ (‘Manifesto for a United States of Europe’), 2013.

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