Alain Lamassoure
Alain Lamassoure ( born February 10, 1944 in Pau) is a French politician of the conservative UMP party and Member of Parliament.
Life
Lamassoure studied at the École Nationale d'Administration, where he graduated in 1968. He was 1968-73, 1976-77, 1981-86 and 1997-99 worked in various positions at the French Court, he went between various activities in the political arena after. Among other things, he worked 1973-74 in the Cabinet of the French Minister of Culture, 1974-76, he advised the Minister of Finance, 1977-78 the Minister of Infrastructure, 1978-81, he was under Valéry Giscard d' Estaing at the Presidential Office of the French President operates. 1985-86 he was a member of the French Economic and Social Council.
1986 Lamassoure was first elected even in the National Assembly for the UDF Party; from 198, he was spokesman for the party UDF. In the European elections in 1989, he was elected to the European Parliament, which, however, he left in 1993 to compete in France the office of the Minister Delegate for European Affairs in the government of Édouard Balladur, a position he held until 1995. In addition Lamassoure 1993 was again elected to the French National Assembly. In 1995 he was Minister with responsibility for the budget, and spokesman for the government of Alain Juppe. However, after the electoral victory of the Socialist Party in 1997 he had to give back both his seat in the National Assembly as well as his ministerial office.
In the European elections in 1999 Lamassoure was re-elected to the European Parliament; In the same year he was appointed deputy chairman of the party and the UDF to 2000 Mayor of Anglet, and from 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the municipal council of Anglet. From 2002 to 2003 he was one of the representatives of the European Parliament in the European Convention, which prepared the draft for the EU Constitutional Treaty.
In 2002 Lamassoure left the UDF and instead joined the newly founded by Jacques Chirac conservative UMP party to. From 2004 to 2009 he was responsible in the Executive Board of this party for European affairs; Lamassoure also is a board member of the European People's Party ( EPP), who belongs to the UMP since 2004.
In the European elections in 2004 and 2009 respectively Lamassoure was re-elected on the UMP list. Since 2009 he has been Chairman of the Budget Committee of the Parliament. He is thus responsible for the negotiations with the Council of the European Union on the financial perspective from 2013. In this context, he advocates for a fundamental reform of the own resources of the European Union, the collection will be transparent and should involve fewer exemptions.