Lave Knud Broch
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Lave Knud Broch | |
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| Vice President, EUDemocrats | |
| Assumed office 2011 | |
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| Born | 22 March 1972 Malmö, Sweden |
| Political party | EUDemocrats, Danish Social Liberal Party, People's Movement against the EU |
| Alma mater | University of Copenhagen |
| Website | http://broch.dk/ |
Lave Knud Broch is a Danish politician and Vice President[1] of the European political alliance, EUDemocrats and substitute member to the European Parliament[2] for the People's Movement against the EU. Broch is the chair of the Danish UN Association’s Peace and Conflict resolution committee and serves on the executive board.[3] He is widely known in the Danish public for arguing that Denmark should not participate in military actions without a UN mandate.[4] He strongly supports Danish participation in the UN's efforts to promote peace, including establishing a permanent UN peace force.[5][6][7][8][9]
Broch has connections to a variety of Nordic countries, having grown up in a Danish-Norwegian family in Malmö, Sweden. Broch has a Master of Science degree in Political Science from University of Copenhagen. He is also a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party and was a European Parliament candidate for the first time in 1994.[10]