Hubert Védrine

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Hubert Védrine in 2006.

Hubert Védrine (born July 31, 1947 in Saint-Sylvain-Bellegarde in the Creuse department ) is a French socialist politician and former foreign minister.

biography

His father Jean Védrine was a politician and private secretary to Marshal Philippe Pétain during the Vichy regime , later he was active in the Resistance and worked for President François Mitterrand .

After completing the Baccalauréat in Bois-Colombes , Védrine studied at the University of Nanterre and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris up to a degree in history. He then attended the École nationale d'administration (ENA) from 1972 to 1974 and then joined the French Ministry of Culture as a senior official, where he was responsible for monument protection. In 1978 he moved to the Ministry of Environment and Quality of Life as Director of the Architecture Department, before becoming Director General for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and Section Head for Technical Cooperation in the Fields of Health, Housing and Public Service in the Foreign Ministry Quai d'Orsay in 1979 . At the same time he was involved in Échanges et Projets , represented today by Jacques Delors .

In 1981, President François Mitterrand appointed Védrine to the General Secretariat of the Elysée Palace as a foreign policy advisor , in 1986 Védrine joined the Conseil d'État as petitioner and was press spokesman for the President during Mitterrand's second term from 1988 to 1991 . In 1991 he was appointed Secretary General (senior civil servant) of the President's Office.

As François Mitterrand's disease progressed, Védrine gradually achieved an increasingly important role, especially during the second cohabitation , in which Mitterrand had difficulties to carry out his duties due to his illness. In 1995 he returned to the Conseil d'État before joining the law firm Jeantet & Associés and writing articles for Le Point magazine in the international section. Védrine has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1996 .

During the third cohabitation , Hubert Védrine was Foreign Minister in the Jospin cabinet from 1997 to 2002 - a position that he owed to Jacques Chirac's commitment to him. Védrine shares with Chirac and his successor as Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin the rejection of a unilateral US policy in the Iraq conflict . Védrine popularized the term simplistic hyperpower to describe the American hegemony he felt at the turn of the millennium. As Foreign Minister, Védrine played a key role in the negotiations on the Treaty of Nice in December 2000, which reformed decision-making at European level.

He is a member of the city council of Saint-Léger-des-Vignes ( Nièvre department ). Hubert Védrine teaches at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris). There he gives courses on foreign and security policy. Hubert Védrine is married to Michèle Froment, who was a technical advisor in René Teulade's office , and has two children.

Publications

  • Hubert Védrine: Mieux aménager sa ville , 1979 ( Eng. Shaping your city ​​better )
  • Hubert Védrine: Les Mondes de François Mitterrand , Fayard 1996 (Eng. The worlds of François Mitterrand )
  • Hubert Védrine: Les Cartes de la France à l'heure de la mondialisation . 2000.
  • Sauver l'Europe . Éditions Liana Levi, Paris 2016.

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SURNAME Védrine, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (PS), Foreign Minister
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Sylvain Bellegarde