Philippe Morillon

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Philippe Morillon (born October 24, 1935 in Casablanca , French Morocco ) is a French politician and former army officer with the rank of Général d'armée (five-star general). From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the European Parliament of the UDF and MoDem .

Military career

Morillon graduated from Saint-Cyr Military School in 1956 . As a sub-lieutenant he then served in the Algerian war . He graduated from the Supélec College of Electrical Engineering in 1964 and from the Army Staff School in 1974. From 1980 to 1982 he commanded the 1er regiment de cuirassiers , a tank regiment stationed in St. Wendel in Saarland . From 1984 to 1986 he was a military expert for the French National Assembly .

From 1992 to 1993 Morillon was Commander of the United Nations Armed Forces in Bosnia , UNPROFOR . In March 1993 he traveled to the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica , which is inhabited by a majority of Muslim Bosniaks and besieged by Serbs , where he hoisted the blue UN flag and symbolically declared the city a UN protection zone (see also: Srebrenica massacre ). Despite these events, Morillon has also made very negative comments about the violations of the Geneva Conventions by the Bosnian army under the leadership of Naser Orić .

From 1994 to 1996 Morillon was commander of the French Army's Rapid Reaction Force (FAR) . Morillon finished active military service in 1997.

Political career

From 1999 to 2009 Morillon was a member of the European Parliament for the middle-class bourgeois party Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) and, after its split in 2007, for the Mouvement démocrate (MoDem). In the 1999-2004 legislative period he was a member of the Christian Democratic EPP-ED group and was a member of the group's executive committee from 2002-04. From 2002 to 2004 he was also chairman of the delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly .

In the 2004 European elections, Morillon led the list of the UDF in the electoral district of western France ( Bretagne , Pays de la Loire , Poitou-Charentes ). He was then a member of the Group Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and chaired the Committee on Fisheries of the European Parliament, and from 2007 also deputy chairman of the delegation for relations with Afghanistan. Morillon was also a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and was a delegate in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and in the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly .

Morillon is chairman of the association L'envol pour les enfants européens .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The military patterns of action of the conflicting parties in the former Yugoslavia in 1995 up to the Dayton Peace Treaty (PDF file; 2.31 MB), dissertation by Raphael Draschtak. Page 120

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personal data
SURNAME Morillon, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, MEP and general
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Casablanca , Morocco