Janelly Fourtou

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Janelly Fourtou (born Harrburger ; born February 4, 1939 in Paris ) is a French politician ( UDF ). She was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 .

Education, work and family

Janelly Fourtou worked as an assistant at the Paris Chamber of Commerce from 1960 to 1964, and from 1965 to 1969 at the Maison de la Presse bookstore . She completed a degree in modern languages ​​and literature, which she graduated with a maîtrise in 1972 .

She is married to the former CEO of Vivendi media company , Jean-Rene Fourtou .

politics

As a member of the civil union pour la démocratie française (UDF), Fourtou was a member of the municipal council of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 , where she was responsible for housing from 1989 to 1995 and then for employment policy.

During her first term in the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004, she sat in the conservative EPP-ED group , was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market and the Committee on Petitions, as well as a delegate for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico. After her re-election in 2004, she joined the group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) like the other UDF MPs . She was also a member of the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and was a delegate in the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.

In 2004, as rapporteur in the European Parliament, she was significantly involved in Directive 2004/48 / EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (Copyright or Enforcement Directive for short). The organization European Digital Rights (EDRi) accused Fourtou that the guideline also served their personal economic interests. According to the Financial Times, a joint private foundation owned by the Fourtou couple had owned convertible bonds from Vivendi worth 14.5 million euros since 2002 , with the option to convert them into shares in the media group in 2005. Music and film production companies such as Vivendi Universal had a particular interest in the adoption of the directive. The EU parliamentarians Neil MacCormick and Heide Rühle from the Greens / EFA group accused Fourtou of a conflict of interests. The French stock exchange regulator Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) investigated suspicion of insider trading.

After the split in the UDF, Fourtou founded the small party Alliance citoyenne pour la démocratie en Europe / Avenir démocrate with her European Parliament colleagues Jean-Marie Cavada and Claire Gibault .

publication

  • Un gût d'Europe. Journal d'une députée européenne. Fauves, 2019, 979-10-302-0280-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c EU reporter on the copyright directive in the sights of the stock exchange supervisory authority , Heise-Online from June 5, 2004.
  2. ^ Thomas H. Wendel: The interests of Madame Fourtou , Berliner Zeitung from June 1, 2004 (web archive from March 26, 2005).
personal data
SURNAME Fourtou, Janelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrburger, Janelly (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UDF), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris