Alain Lamassoure

Alain Lamassoure, April 2007

Alain Lamassoure (born February 10, 1944 in Pau ) is a French politician ( UDF , UMP ) from France . He was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2019, where he was chairman of the Committee on Budgets from 2009 to 2014 .

Life

Lamassoure studied at the École nationale d'administration , where he graduated in 1968. He held various positions at the French Court of Auditors from 1968–73, 1976–77, 1981–86 and 1997–99, in between he pursued various activities in the political field. Among other things, he worked in the cabinet of the French minister of culture from 1973–74, advised the finance minister from 1974–76, the infrastructure minister from 1977–78, and from 1978–81 he worked under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the presidential office of the French president . 1985–86 he was a member of the French Economic and Social Council .

In 1986 Lamassoure was elected to the National Assembly for the first time for the bourgeois party alliance UDF , where he represented a constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department . From 1988 he was spokesman for the UDF. In the European elections in 1989 he was elected to the European Parliament . There he initially sat in the Liberal Group , but at the end of 1991 switched to the Christian Democratic EPP Group with the other UDF members of the European Parliament . From 1992 to 1993 he was a board member of the EPP Group and chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Control .

At the end of March 1993, he left the European Parliament to take up the post of Minister Associate for European Affairs (under Foreign Minister Alain Juppé ) in the Édouard Balladur government , which he held until May 1995. In addition, Lamassoure was re-elected to the French National Assembly in 1993. In 1995 he was appointed Minister for the Budget (under Finance Minister Jean Arthuis ) and government spokesman in the Juppé II cabinet . After the election victory of the Parti socialiste in 1997, however, he had to give up both his seat in the National Assembly and his ministerial office.

In the 1999 European elections , Lamassoure was re-elected to the European Parliament; In the same year he became deputy party chairman of the UDF (until 2002) and until 2000 mayor of the city of Anglet (Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques). From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the Anglet parish council. From 2002 to 2003 he was one of the representatives of the European Parliament in the European Convention , which drafted the EU Constitutional Treaty.

In 2002 Lamassoure joined the majority of the members of the UDF in the conservative party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), newly founded by Jacques Chirac . From 2004 to 2009 he was on the board of this party responsible for European policy issues; Lamassoure has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the European People's Party (EPP), of which the UMP is a member, since 2004 .

In the European elections in 2004 and 2009 , Lamassoure was re-elected to the UMP list. From 2009 to 2014 he was chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Budgets . He was thus responsible for the negotiations with the Council of the European Union on the financial perspective from 2013. In this context, he advocated a fundamental reform of the European Union's own resources , the collection of which should become more transparent and contain fewer exceptions. After his re-election in 2014 , he was chairman of the French delegation in the EPP group until Franck Proust succeeded him in October 2016 . After the 2019 election , Lamassoure left the European Parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Parliament , April 10, 2007: Parliamentarians want to finance the EU budget more fairly and transparently .

Web links

Commons : Alain Lamassoure  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (French)
• Entry on Alain Lamassoure in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
• VoteWatch.eu: voting by Alain Lamassoure in the European Parliament (English)