Pierre Moscovici

Pierre Moscovici ( born September 16, 1957 in Paris ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS). Moscovici was from 1994 to 1997 and again from 2004 to 2007 member of the European Parliament. From June 1997 to May 2002 he held the office of Minister for European Affairs in the government of Lionel Jospin. Since 1997 he represented in the French National Assembly as a deputy to the fourth electoral district of the Doubs department. After commencement of the Government Jean -Marc Ayrault 16 May 2012 Moscovici was appointed first to the Ministre de l' Économie, des Finances et du Commerce Extérieur (Minister of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade). After the Cabinet formation after the parliamentary elections in 2012, he was Minister of Finance 2014; responsibility for foreign trade was transferred to a separate ministry under Nicole Bricq.

Biography

Youth and Education

Pierre Moscovici into a Jewish- oriented to left-wing politics family of intellectuals Romanian- Polish origin. His father was the 1947 Romania emigrated to France social psychologist, anthropologist and political ecologist Serge Moscovici ( born June 14, 1925 in Braila, Romania), his mother, the psychoanalyst Marie Bromberg - Moscovici ( born 1932 ), whose family shortly before her birth Poland had emigrated to France and there survived the German occupation under a false name. Marie Bromberg - Moscovici was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of the 121 of 6 September 1960 in the 121 intellectuals, university teachers and artists stand against the war in Algeria. The couple met in Paris to know when Marie Bromberg worked at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ). The marriage produced two sons were born. Pierre Moscovici is the older of the two children.

After Pierre Moscovici had completed the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, he studied at the Institut d' études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in Economics and Political Science. In 1978 he finished his studies, each with a Diplôme d' études approfondies (DEA, now replaced by the Master's degree ) in Economics ( University of Paris X) and in Political Science ( University of Paris I). He went 1982 - 1984 for the École nationale d'administration (ENA ) in Strasbourg, where he studied, among other things Dominique Strauss- Kahn and was ibid. his doctorate in 1984 ( Cadre de la promotion Louise Michel ).

Political career

In 1984 he became a member of the Parti Socialiste. From 1994, Moscovici was an MEP. The mandate he laid down in 1997, after he was elected deputy to the National Assembly for the department of Doubs. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Minister Delegate for European Affairs in the government of Lionel Jospin, his mandate therefore rested.

2002 different Moscovici after the resignation of the Jospin government out of his ministerial office. Shortly after, he failed in the election for the National Assembly. In 2007 he successfully ran for parliament and was re-elected in 2012, his mandate rests in the government since joining.

As a representative of the Social Democratic flow within the Parti Socialiste Moscovici long supported Dominique Strauss -Kahn. After his retirement from the French policy, he considered its own bid for the Socialist presidential candidacy in 2012, but then supported François Hollande, the intra-party election campaign he led. He has specialized in international and economic issues.

On 5 May 2013, commented on the vague announcement of the European Commission to give France more time (2 years? ) For fiscal consolidation, as follows:

This meant the end of the " austerity dogma " in the EU; this was " crucial [ ... ] a turning point in the history of the European project since the introduction of the euro "; one experiences "the end of a particular form of fiscal orthodoxy and the end of the dogma of austerity ". This, he said, two days before his meeting with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and a few days after the first visit of the new Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta in Berlin, Paris and Brussels.

Publications

L' heure des choix pour une économie politique (together with François Hollande ), Odile Jacob, 1991.
À la recherche de la gauche perdue, Calmann -Levy, 1994.
Source économie pour quel emploi? ( Collective of authors ), L ` Atelier, 1995.
L' urgence, pour une autre politique plea, Plon, 1997.
Au cœur de l'Europe, le Pré aux Clerc, 1999.
L'Europe, une puissance dans la mondialisation, Seuil, 2001.
Un an après, Grasset, 2003.
Les 10 questions qui les fâchent Européens, Perrin, 2004.
L'Europe est morte, vive l'Europe, Perrin, 2006
La France dans un monde dangereux: de l' exception à l' influence, Plon, 2006
Le liquidateur, Hachette 2008
Mission impossible? Comment peut battre la gauche Sarkozy en 2012, Paris, Le Cherche Midi, 2009
Défaite interdite, Flammarion, 2011.

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