Nicole Fontaine

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Nicole Fontaine (2002)

Nicole Claude Marie Fontaine (born January 16, 1942 in Grainville-Ymauville , Normandy as Nicole Claude Marie Garnier ; † May 17, 2018 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French politician ( UDF , UMP ). She was a member of the European Parliament from 1984–2002 and 2004–2009, and its President from 1999–2002 .

Life

After finishing school in Le Havre , Fontaine studied law at the University of Paris . She completed her studies in 1962 with a licentiate . Two years later she graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Fontaine received his PhD in public law in 1969 with a thesis on the relationship between the French state and the French private school sector.

Following her studies, Fontaine taught at a secondary school in 1963 and 1964. She was also married to Jean-René Fontaine since 1964 and has a daughter with him. From 1965 Fontaine worked as a legal advisor in the General Secretariat of the Catholic Education System (Secrétariat Général de l'Enseignement Catholique) . There she made it to the deputy general secretary. In addition to this activity, Fontaine also served as a member of the Supreme Council for National Education between 1972 and 1981. She gained her first political experience in 1983, when the government under François Mitterrand planned to stop subsidizing the (mostly Catholic ) private schools . Fontaine organized the resistance against this project and demonstrated her political talent during the negotiations.

Nicole Fontaine was admitted to the bar in 1996 by the Hauts-de-Seine Bar. She worked in the law firm Fontaine & Associés in the field of European law. From 2004 to 2006 she was President of the Fondation Jean-et-Jeanne-Scelles , which works for the abolition of prostitution . After the end of her political career, she taught European law and European integration at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and as a Jean Monnet professor at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (until 2014). From 2015 she was an Affiliate Professor at ESCP Europe .

politics

Fontaine, who was a member of the Christian Democratic Party Center des démocrates sociaux (CDS) and thus of the bourgeois party alliance UDF , successfully ran for a seat in the European Parliament in the 1984 European elections . There she sat in the Christian Democratic Group of the European People's Party (EPP), of which she was a member from 1987 onwards. For the European elections in 1989 she stood for the Center pour l'Europe list , in which the European-federalist forces of the UDF gathered under the former EU Parliament President Simone Veil . During this legislative period, Fontaine became one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament at the suggestion of the EPP Group.

In this office she gained general recognition, so that when she was re-elected in 1994 she won the most votes of all vice-presidents. As a consequence, she now also became 1st Vice President and thus Deputy President. In this role, as chairman of the mediation committee between Parliament and the Council, she was often able to help find a compromise. In the course of party mergers, the CDS was merged into the Force démocrate at the end of 1995 and into the Nouvelle UDF in 1997 .

When the parties of the European People's Party (EPP) won a relative majority of seats in the European elections in 1999 and became the strongest political group in direct elections for the first time, Fontaine ran for parliamentary presidency. With 306 of 555 valid votes, she prevailed against the Portuguese socialist Mário Soares (200 votes) and the Finnish Green MP Heidi Hautala (40 votes). In accordance with an agreement concluded with the Liberal Group , Fontaine was replaced as President of Parliament in January 2002 by the Irish MP Pat Cox .

In the course of the French presidential election in May 2002 , Fontaine, like many UDF members, moved to the new center-right collecting party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) of the re-elected President Jacques Chirac . Following the success of the UMP in the French parliamentary elections in June 2002 , Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin appointed Fontaine as Assistant Minister for Industry in the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, of which she was a member until 2004.

From 2004 to 2009 she was again a member of the European Parliament. During this legislature, she was vice-chair of the delegation for relations with Afghanistan and a member of the committees on industry, research and energy, and on women's rights and gender equality .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former EU Parliament head Nicole Fontaine has died. APA report on derstandard.de , May 18, 2018, accessed on May 18, 2018 . L'ancienne ministre Nicole Fontaine est décédée. Le Point.fr , May 18, 2018, accessed May 18, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ 6 Medias: L'ancienne ministre Nicole Fontaine est décédée. May 18, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Nicole FONTAINE - biography , Auteurs du Monde.
  4. ^ Entry on Nicole Fontaine in the database of the European Parliament
  5. ↑ Inquiry response to the written parliamentary question regarding medals and decorations to former domestic and foreign members of the government and other personalities. (pdf, 6.6 MB) Federal Chancellor of Austria , April 23, 2012, p. 997 , accessed on May 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fontaine, Nicole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fontaine, Nicole Claude Marie (full name); Garnier, Nicole Claude Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UDF, UMP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Grainville-Ymauville , Normandy
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 2018
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine