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Justice, fundamental rights and citizenship
Nationality: Luxembourgeois
Political Affiliation: EPP
Previous job: European commissioner for the information society
Age: 58
Challenge to MEPs
“I submit to you that if you have nothing to hide you do not have a life.” Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis on the importance of protecting internet users' data.
Stickiest point
Reding appeared uncomfortable when pressed by British members of the legal affairs committee to explain how the UK common law system could fit in with her plans for a civil code.
“I am not a lawyer,” she said, adding that “common law systems are very respectable systems that we should not leave out”.
Most stringent critic
Dutch liberal MEP Sophia in 't Veld: “You seem to hold a fairly minimalist and passive view of the role of the EU on fundamental rights.”
Most entertaining moments
The repeated disruption of the hearing by Hungarian non-aligned MEP Krisztina Morva, who protested at not being allocated any questions.
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