Catherine Lalumière
Catherine Lalumière (born August 3, 1935 in Rennes , Département Ille-et-Vilaine ) is a French politician of the Parti radical de gauche (PRG), who was a member of the National Assembly , Secretary General of the Council of Europe and a member of the European Parliament for several years . Catherine Lalumière was the first and so far only woman in the position of Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Life
MP and Minister for Consumers
Catherine Lalumière graduated from school with a degree in law and was then a lecturer in administrative law at the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux (IEP de Bordeaux).
In 1981 she was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly as a candidate for the Parti Socialiste after François Mitterrand was elected President , where she represented the constituency of Gironde . Shortly afterwards, on May 22, 1981, Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy appointed her as State Secretary to the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Administrative Reforms (Secrétaire d'État auprès du Premier ministre, chargée de la Fonction publique et des Réformes administratives) .
Less than a month later, on June 23, 1981, Mauroy appointed her to the newly created office of Minister for Consumers (Ministre de la Consommation) in his cabinet , while her successor was Anicet Le Pors , who now served as Minister for Public Services and Administrative Reforms . She held this ministerial office until March 22, 1983 and then on March 24, 1983, as part of a government reshuffle, became State Secretary at the Minister for Economic Affairs, Finance and Budget with responsibility for consumers (Secrétaire d'État auprès du ministre de l'Economie, des Finances et du Budget, chargée de la Consommation) and remained in this office under Mauroy's successor Laurent Fabius until December 7, 1984. He was succeeded by Henri Emmanuelli . During this time she was a member of the newly established Council for the Internal Market and thus dealt with issues of European policy for the first time .
State Secretary for European Affairs
After Roland Dumas became Foreign Minister in the Fabius Cabinet on December 7, 1984 as the successor to Claude Cheysson , she took over the position of State Secretary at the Foreign Minister with responsibility (Secrétaire d'État auprès du ministre des Relations extérieures, chargé des Affaires européennes, as successor to Dumas) ) and remained in this position until March 20, 1986. In this function she was involved in various key issues of European integration such as the admission of Portugal and Spain to the European Communities in 1986. Other important issues at that time were the Single European Act (EEA ) 1985 and the Schengen Agreement 1985.
On April 2, 1986, Catherine Lalumière was re-elected to the National Assembly and until June 1, 1989 again represented the interests of the Gironde constituency . During this time she was a member of the Foreign Policy Committee of the National Assembly and advocated questions of European integration. She also became a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1987 .
Secretary General of the Council of Europe
On June 1, 1989, Lalumière, with the support of François Mitterrand and the Federation of Social Democratic Parties of the European Community, succeeded Marcelino Oreja Aguirre as Secretary General of the Council of Europe and held this position for five years until she was replaced by Daniel Tarschys on June 1, 1994.
Her term of office was marked by the end of the East-West separation in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union , which ultimately led to the membership of the former communist countries of the Warsaw Pact in European organizations. The Council of Europe plays a key role in this transitional phase immediately after the Cold War . Through the relationships established by Lalumière with the new leading politicians in Central and Eastern Europe, the Council of Europe supported these countries in their democratic and economic reforms and thus shaped a large part of its work. As a result, fifteen of these countries became members of the Council of Europe as of 1990. In addition, it came about during her term of office that in 1993 the heads of state of the member states decided to reform the mechanisms of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR),
Under their patronage, a Vinzenz Rizzi Society was founded in 1994 with goals that are “deeply humanistic and democratic”: “The Vinzenz Rizzi Society wants to contribute to the end of the 20th century no longer thinking in terms of the 19th century . ".
Member of the European Parliament
After completing her term of office as General Secretary of the Council of Europe, Lalumière was elected as a candidate for the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche (MRG) in the European elections in 1994 to be a member of the 4th European Parliament and after her re-election as a candidate for the Parti radical de gauche (PRG) at the European elections 1999 to the 5th European Parliament until 2004.
During her parliamentary membership, she chaired the Group of the European Radical Alliance from July 19, 1994 to July 19, 1999 and was later a member of the group drafting the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union . During the second legislative period, she was a member of the parliamentary group of the Party of European Socialists from 1999 to 2004 , and there most recently from 2001 to 2004 a member of the group's executive committee.
She was also Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defense Policy from July 1999 to January 2002 and Vice-President of the European Parliament from April 4, 2001 to July 19, 2004.
After leaving the European Parliament, Catherine Lalumière became President of the House of Europe in Paris (Maison de l'Europe de Paris) in 2004 , an institution providing information on Europe and European politics. From 2008 to 2017 she also served as President of the Fédération Française des Maisons de l'Europe (FFME).
Web links
- Biography on the homepage of the Center virtuel de la connaissance sur l'Europe (CVCE)
- Entry for Catherine Lalumière in the database of Members of the European Parliament
- Entry on the homepage of etudes-europeennes.eu
- Le rôle du Conseil de l'Europe (tvdma.org)
- Homepage of the Maison de l'Europe de Paris
Individual evidence
- ^ Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Heinrich Klebes: Council of Europe Law: Towards a Pan-European Legal Area . P. 72, ISBN 9-28715-594-1 , 2005
- ^ Klaus Brummer: The Council of Europe: An Introduction , p. 126, ISBN 3-53115-710-8 , 2008
- ^ Peter Karpf: The discussion about a political representation of interests for the Carinthian Slovenes in the mirror of the press. In: Karl Anderwald and Valentin Hellwig (eds.): Carinthian yearbook for politics . Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1994, ISBN 3-85391-121-8 , p. 108
- ↑ Marjan Sturm: For a new culture of living together . In: Karl Anderwald and Valentin Hellwig (eds.): Carinthian yearbook for politics . Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1994, ISBN 3-85391-121-8 , p. 263
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lalumière, Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician (PS), member of the National Assembly, MEP and Secretary General of the Council of Europe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rennes , Ille-et-Vilaine department |