Nicole Bricq

Nicole Bricq ( born June 10, 1947 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS) and was Minister for Foreign Trade in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jean -Marc Ayrault.

Life

Career and deputies

After schooling Nicole Bricq studied civil law at the University of Bordeaux and completed this study in 1970. Subsequently, she worked as a lawyer before she was appointed as the First Secretary of the Parti Socialiste of Paris at the beginning of the 1980s. During their years of membership in the think tank Centre d' Etudes, de Recherches et d' Éducation Socialiste ( CERES ) it becomes the confidant of Jean -Pierre Chevènement, who was several times minister, and the political left coined within the PS.

Your actual political career began in March 1983 when she was elected as representative of the PS as a member of the Regional Council of Ile- de -France, and was in this 1986 to 1987 President of the Cultural Commission. The mandate of the Regional Council, she held until January 1989.

Between 1988 and 1991 she was a technical adviser in the office of Minister of Defence Chevènement, the 1988 successor to André Giraud on May 12. During this time she was part of the senior staff, who considered the use of French troops in the Second Gulf War. This led to the final break with Chevènement because of different views after it had already given differences in the views on the role of France in Europe.

Some time later she became a staff member of Dominique Strauss- Kahn, before a technical adviser in the office of Minister of Environment Ségolène Royal was between 1992 and 1993, the successor of Brice Lalonde.

In June 1997, Nicole Bricq was chosen as the successor of Pierre Quillet to the deputies of the National Assembly, where the constituency of Seine- et- Marne VI represented by June 2002. During this time she wrote for the Committee on Finance, General Economy and Planning an information report on environmental taxes, which provided for a reform of the tax system in the field of environmental taxation and wider application of the polluter pays principle.

Senator and Minister

After she was also a member of the municipal council of Meaux in 2001, took place on 26 September 2004, of its election as a member of the Senate, where it has since the department of Seine -et -Marne represents. During her Senate membership she was a member of the Finance Committee, the Vice- President, she was in October 2008. After her re-election to the Senate, it was 2011 general rapporteur for the budget of the Finance Committee in October. In this role, she put during the budget deliberations in November 2011, the Finance Committee before a balance criticism that dealt with the duties and taxes for the years 2007 to 2012, and also presented proposals for the next five years.

Nicole Bricq, which is one of the main advisors of François Hollande since 2009, sustainable development and energy was after the election of Hollande as President and the appointment of Jean -Marc Ayrault as prime minister of this on 17 May 2012 Minister for Ecology, and thus called to the Environment Minister in the Cabinet. When the formation of the Cabinet after the French parliamentary election in 2012, she was appointed Minister for Foreign Trade, was her successor as Minister of the Environment Delphine Batho. In the Cabinet Valls she was not appointed.