Jean-Louis Borloo

Jean -Louis Borloo ( born April 7, 1951 in Paris ) is a French politician and had June 19, 2007 held the office of Minister of State for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning in the cabinet of Prime Minister François Fillon until 14 November 2010. He is also in December 2005 President of the Parti radical valoisien and since September 2012 Chairman of the Union des Independants et démocrates.

Biography

Jean -Louis Borloo spent his school years at the Paris Lycée Janson de Sailly, where he was enthusiastic about philosophy and history, at the same time he engaged for several years in a Scouting. 1972 Borloo reached the conclusion of a double " Licence" in law and philosophy, and later also in history and economics. He completed his education with further studies in Finance at Trade Institute, University of Manchester as part of an MBA program. In the early 1980s, he was admitted as a lawyer in Paris and founded a law firm specializing in business law. He became the top lawyer for bankruptcy law and corporate restructuring in 1980 and counted according to the Fortune five best-paid lawyers in the world.

Borloo was a professor of financial analysis at the elite School of Economics ( HEC). From 1986 to 1991 he took over the chairmanship of the football club Valenciennes, in 1989, was his candidacy and election as mayor of Valenciennes - his action was the establishment of several companies owe in the region and the associated industrial development and the decline in the unemployment rate. Between 1989 and 1992 he was an MEP, 1993, he won a parliamentary seat in the 21st electoral district of the department of Nord. In 1994 Borloo was re-elected in the elections for mayor in Valenciennes, it could also renew his seat for the UDF in 1997. He was appointed spokesman of the party and re-elected as mayor of Valenciennes 2001.

Since 2005 Borloo Chairman of the Parti radical is valoisien. Since the end of his membership in the Sarkozy government in November 2010 Borloo operates the formation of a new coalition movement of the centrist parties. On September 18, 2012 for the Union des Independants démocrates et was founded, was elected its president Borloo.

Government functions

Under the load of the worst recession in a decade and simultaneous implementation of neo-liberal social and economic policy reforms ( pension reform, health care reform, Agenda 2006), which were felt by the French citizens to be socially unbalanced and unfair ( " méthode Raffarin " ), became the conservative government of Jean -Pierre Raffarin into a tailspin.

After the voters had the two rounds of the regional elections ( 21 and 28 March 2004) used to punish the government, President Chirac and Prime Minister Raffarin took a comprehensive reshuffle, or a part of the originally planned cuts was withdrawn in the social field or mitigated.

Through the use of around 13 billion euros and a total of 20 government programs, along the principal axes of the employment policies, housing improvement, integration, equal opportunities, unemployment should be significantly reduced within 5 years. Wanted to promote places targeted especially socially disadvantaged young people, single mothers and long-term unemployed or recipients of RMI ( Revenu minimum d'insertion), giving them a better living standard for income, so as to try it again in French society to integrate. In the housing sector, this should be achieved by additional construction of approximately 900 000 homes, renovation of vacancies as well as financial incentives for private landlords. In the area of ​​equal opportunities for intensified child care and development of boarding schools should open up new possibilities especially single mothers. In the employment total of 800 000 new training contracts for young unemployed, ABM similar measures for long-term unemployed, an improvement of employment services by bundling the participating institutions and the creation of about 300 job centers ( maisons d' emploi ) should improve this situation. With this plan they tried to implement the announced after the regional elections in March 2004 turn in social policies and to give the French people a humane, socially conscious image of the Raffarin government - which had failed in the preceding years, thus the shift to the left in had conducted elections.

On September 15, 2004, the cabinet approved the plan and the National Assembly approved it on 20 December 2004 as a framework law. Even before were able to show any effects from the reactions of the plan was the third Raffarin government terminated prematurely (31 May 2005).

In the carried out on 29 May 2005 referendum, around 55 percent of French voters rejected the EU Constitution with their " Non" from. At the same time it was also a vote with which they clearly expressed their dissatisfaction with the economic and social policies of the Raffarin government expressed. The voting debacle forced President Jacques Chirac to a renewal of the government. Even on election night he announced the replacement of the unpopular Raffarin government, and appointed on 2 June 2005, a new government under the leadership of Dominique de Villepin, who had previously held the position of Minister of Interior.

In the Villepin government (2 June 2005 to 15 May 2007) Jean -Louis Borloo was again minister. This time, with the title "Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing " ( Ministre de l' Emploi, de la cohesion sociale et du Logement ).

2007 Borloo became Minister for Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Development under President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister François Fillon. 2010 Jean -Louis Borloo has been touted as the new prime minister for the upcoming autumn of the year reshuffle. President Sarkozy held but then to François Fillon as Prime Minister noted. Borloo announced, 14 November 2010 announced his departure from the cabinet under Fillon.

Private

On 21 July 2005 Borloo married in Rueil-Malmaison ( Hauts -de -Seine département ) the staff employed by the France 2 television journalist Béatrice Schönberg. This marriage took because of the mixing of media and politics a lot of criticism - especially unions - up.

Political CV

Parliamentary seats and municipal offices

Government functions

  • 2002-2004: Assistant Minister for Urban Planning and Development (Cabinet Raffarin I, Cabinet Raffarin II)
  • 2004-2007: Minister of Labour ( II Raffarin Cabinet, Cabinet de Villepin)
  • 2007: Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment (Cabinet Fillon I)
  • 2007-2010: Minister of State, Minister for the Environment (Cabinet Fillon II)

Party functions

  • 2001-2002: Spokesperson of the UDF
  • Since 2005: Chairman of the Parti Radical
  • Since 2012: Chairman of the Union des Independants et démocrates
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