Jens-Peter Bonde

Danish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the June Movement. He resigned as an MEP in May 2008. Bonde was elected to the European Parliament in the first election in 1979 with the People's Movement against the EU. He was re-elected 6 times consecutively. In 1992 he co-founded the June Movement which he chaired until his retirement in May 2008.

Jens-Peter Bonde emerged from the Danish Left of the 1970s, however he was on the centre-left for much of his life. In November 2005 he was the inspiration behind the setting up of a new Party at a European level, EUDemocrats. He was its president from 2005 to 2009.

Bonde was also a journalist and wrote over 60 books on the EU, including editions of EU treaties with additional commentary.

He was married to Lisbeth Kirk, editor-in-chief of the independent online newspaper EUobserver. Jens-Peter had four sons. He died on 4 April 2021, aged 73, in Frederiksværk.