Bernard Guetta

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Bernard Guetta (2008)

Bernard Guetta (born January 28, 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French journalist and politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019 .

Life

His mother Francine Bouria was a courier for the Resistance during World War II and joined the Trotskyist movement in 1945 . His father, Pierre Guetta, a Sephardic Jew who immigrated from Morocco , was a sociologist, also a Trotskyist and author of the left-wing journal Socialisme ou barbarie . Bernard Guetta's sister is the actress Nathalie Guetta . The DJ David Guetta is his half-brother.

Guetta was politicized at an early age through his parents' house, at the age of 15 he joined the French League for Human Rights . He made friends with the same age Emmanuel Todd , whose parents were friends with his. After his parents divorced, Guetta lived with his grandparents in Casablanca for two years . On his return to Paris, he attended the Lycée Henri IV , where he prepared his Baccalauréat (Abitur) in 1968 . During the student protests in May 1968 , the 17-year-old student became one of the leaders of the Comité d'action lycéen (CAL) and took part in the occupation of his school and the Lycée Fénelon. In the autumn of 1968 he joined the Trotskyist Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (JCR). The following year he took part in the founding of the Ligue communiste (predecessor of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire , LCR) and was elected to its central committee.

In September 1969 he began training at the Center de formation des journalistes (CFJ) school of journalism , where he a. a. learned from François Furet . At the beginning of 1970 he separated from the Ligue communiste. In 1971 he began an internship at the news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur . After an interview with the former Rote Kapelle fighter Leopold Trepper in Warsaw (1973), he was employed as an editor at Nouvel Obs . From 1973-74 he reported in a series of articles about the Lip watch factory in Besançon , in which the workers themselves had taken over the management ( autogestion ).

In 1979, Guetta moved to the daily Le Monde as a correspondent for Central and Eastern Europe . He reported in particular on the strike of the Gdańsk shipyard workers led by Lech Wałęsa and the 1st Congress of the Solidarność trade union in Poland. He made friends with the Polish civil rights activists Jacek Kuroń and Bronisław Geremek . In 1981 he was awarded the Albert Londres Prize for his coverage of Poland . In the same year he was accepted as a Young Leader in the French-American Foundation . From 1983 to 1987 he was a US correspondent for the moons in Washington, DC . Then he was transferred to Moscow, where Mikhail Gorbachev took the lead and began his glasnost and perestroika policy .

In the fall of 1990, Guetta left Moscow and the moons and moved to the business magazine L'Expansion , for which he wrote until 1993. In 1996 he returned to Nouvel Obs , where he was editor until 1999. At the same time, he could be heard on France Inter from 1991 to 2018 , where he had a weekly program on geopolitical issues. He also wrote editorials for L'Express , Le Temps and La Liberation . In these and his posts on France Inter , he often spoke out in favor of deeper European integration . In the run-up to the referendum on the European Constitution in 2005 , Guetta was one of the representatives of the “Yes” campaign (which, however, was ultimately defeated by the “No”).

As a non-party, Guetta ran for the 2019 European elections on the Renaissance list of the pro-European center-parties La République en Marche and Mouvement démocrate . He moved into the European Parliament , where he sits in the liberal Renew Europe group . Since then he has been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs , the Subcommittee on Human Rights and a delegate in the Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation between the EU and Russia.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jean-Paul Salles: GUETTA Bernard. In: Maitron en ligne , as of May 28, 2019.
  2. ^ Entry on Bernard Guetta in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
personal data
SURNAME Guetta, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt