Ben Patterson (politician)

Ben Patterson
Member of the European Parliament for Kent West
In office 7 June 1979 – 19 July 1994
Personal details
Born	George Benjamin Patterson (1939-04-21) 21 April 1939 (age 85) Hemel Hempstead, England
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Political party	Conservative

George Benjamin Patterson (born 21 April 1939) is a British writer and former Conservative Party politician.

Ben Patterson was born in Hemel Hempstead.^[1] He was educated at Westminster School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics.^[2] His first job was as a tutor at Swinton Conservative College, lecturing on the Common Market.

From 1968 to 1971 he was a Councillor on the London Borough of Hammersmith. ^[3]

In 1979, at the first direct elections to the European Parliament, Patterson was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Kent West. He served as vice-chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy from January 1992 until he was defeated in the 1994 European elections.^[1]

Bibliography

Patterson wrote many publications, including the following:^[4]

• Direct Elections to the European Parliament (1974)
• Powers of the European Parliament (1979)
• Purse-Strings of Europe (1979)
• Vredeling and All That (1984)
• Europe and Employment (1984)
• VAT: The Zero Rate Issue (1988)
• European Monetary Union (1991)
• A European Currency: on track for 1999? (1994)
• Options for a Definitive VAT System (1995)
• The Co-ordination of National Fiscal Policies (1996)
• The Consequences of Abolishing Duty Free (1997)
• Adjusting to Asymmetric Shocks (1998)
• The Feasibility of a 'Tobin Tax' (1999)
• The Determination of Interest Rates (1999)
• Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy (2000)
• Tax Co-ordination in the EU (2002)
• Background to the Euro (2003)
• Public Debt (2003)
• The Euro: Success or Failure? (2006)
• Understanding the EU Budget (2011)

References

1. "MEPs: (Ben) George Benjamin PATTERSON". European Parliament. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
2. "PATTERSON, George Benjamin, (Ben),". Who's Who. Vol. 2022 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. "The Conservative Party and Europe". La Librairie Européenne. Retrieved 28 May 2015.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
4. "Understanding the Eu Budget". Amazon. Retrieved 28 May 2015.