Pierre Moscovici

Pierre Moscovici (2015)

Pierre Moscovici (born September 16, 1957 in Paris ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS). Moscovici was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997 and again from 2004 to 2007 . From June 1997 to May 2002 he was Minister for European Affairs in the Lionel Jospin government . From 1997 to 2014 he represented the 4th constituency of the Doubs département as a member of the French National Assembly . After Jean-Marc Ayrault took office on May 16, 2012, Moscovici was initially appointed Minister of Finance . After the new cabinet was formed after the parliamentary elections in 2012 , he was Minister of Finance until 2014; responsibility for foreign trade was transferred to an independent ministry under Nicole Bricq .

On September 10, 2014, Pierre Moscovici was appointed Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner of the newly formed EU Commission by Jean-Claude Juncker . By redesigning the individual departments, he will also be responsible for taxes and customs union.

biography

Youth and education

Pierre Moscovici comes from an influential family of intellectuals oriented towards left-wing politics. His father is the Romanian-Jewish social psychologist , anthropologist and political ecologist Serge Moscovici (1925-2014), who emigrated to France in 1947, his mother the Polish-Jewish psychoanalyst Marie Bromberg-Moscovici (1932-2015), whose family was shortly before she was born emigrated from Poland to France and survived the occupation by Nazi Germany there under a false name. Marie Bromberg-Moscovici was one of the signatories of the 121 manifesto of September 6, 1960, in which 121 intellectuals, university members and artists took a stand against the Algerian war . The couple met in Paris when Marie Bromberg was working at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). The marriage resulted in two sons. Pierre Moscovici is the older of these two children. Moscovici is an avowed Zionist .

Pierre Moscovici attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. He studied economics and political science at two elite universities , first at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). In 1978 he graduated with a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA; meanwhile replaced by a master’s degree) in economics (University of Paris X) and in political science (University of Paris I). He then studied from 1982 to 1984 at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in Paris, including with Dominique Strauss-Kahn , and graduated in 1984.

Political career

In 1984 he became a member of the Parti socialiste . From 1994 Moscovici was a MEP . He resigned in 1997 after he had been elected member of the National Assembly for the Doubs department . Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Assistant Minister for European Affairs in the government of Lionel Jospin , so his mandate was suspended.

In 2002, after the resignation of the Jospin government, Moscovici resigned from his ministerial office. Shortly afterwards he failed in the election for the National Assembly. He successfully ran for parliament in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012; his mandate has been suspended since he entered government.

As a representative of the social democratic movement within the Parti socialiste , Moscovici supported Dominique Strauss-Kahn for a long time . After his retirement from French politics, he considered his own application for the socialist presidential candidacy in 2012, but then supported François Hollande , whose intra-party election campaign he led. He has particularly specialized in international and economic topics. Moscovici was the economy minister of the new government under Jean-Marc Ayrault appointed. This period was marked by constant conflicts over economic policy with the Minister of Industry, Arnaud Montebourg . As a result, Moscovici lost his office. His ministry was downsized and essential areas were added to the Montebourg Ministry of Industry. In June 2015, Wikileaks revealed that it had been spied on by the US secret service NSA for years.

EU commissioner

Since November 1, 2014, Moscovici has been responsible for the area of ​​economics and currency in the Juncker Commission, succeeding the Finn Jyrki Katainen .

In June 2015, he said in relation to the debt dispute between Greece and the Eurogroup that Greece would no longer manage to make a repayment of € 1.6 billion to the International Monetary Fund. After the Greek government denied this, it had to confirm a few days later that it would no longer raise the necessary money.

Political positions

On May 5, 2013, he commented on the EU Commission's vague announcement that it would give France more time to reorganize its budget, saying: This would mean the end of the “ austerity dogma” in the EU; this is "crucial [...] a turning point in the history of the European project since the introduction of the euro"; one experiences “the end of a certain form of fiscal orthodoxy and the end of the dogma of austerity”. He said this two days before his meeting with the German Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble and a few days after the inaugural visit of the new Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta in Berlin, Paris and Brussels.

In a report by the EU Commission in March 2018, the seven member states Belgium , Ireland , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , Republic of Cyprus and Hungary were reprimanded by Moscovici for their corporate taxation . These practices undermine justice and a level playing field in the EU's internal market , he said as economic commissioner.

Publications

• L'heure des choix, pour une économie politique (together with François Hollande ), Odile Jacob, 1991.
• À la recherche de la gauche perdue, Calmann-Levy, 1994.
• Source économie pour quel emploi? (Collective of authors), L'Atelier, 1995.
• L'urgence, plaidoyer pour une autre politique, Plon, 1997.
• Au cœur de l'Europe, le Pré aux Clercs, 1999.
• L'Europe, une puissance dans la mondialisation, Seuil, 2001.
• Un an après, Grasset, 2003.
• Les 10 questions qui fâchent les Européens, Perrin, 2004.
• L'Europe est morte, vive l'Europe, Perrin, 2006
• La France dans un monde dangereux: de l'exception à l'influence, Plon, 2006
• Le liquidateur, Hachette 2008
• Mission impossible? Comment la gauche peut battre Sarkozy en 2012, Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2009
• Défaite interdite, Flammarion, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Pierre Moscovici  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Le Blog de Pierre Moscovici / Pierre Moscovici's private blog
• Biography at the National Assembly (French)
• Entry on Pierre Moscovici in the database of Members of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Message on lemonde.fr of May 16, 2012 (French) , accessed on May 16, 2012
2. ↑ NZZ September 10, 2014: The new EU Commission. Juncker relies on strong representatives
3. ^ Homepage Serge Moscovici with biography
4. ↑ Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon: sv Marie Moscovici (née Bromberg)
5. ↑ Der Kassenwart , in: Jüdische Allgemeine, November 13, 2014.
6. ^ Homepage Serge Moscovici with biography
7. ↑ TF1 News May 10, 2012: Pierre Moscovici, ministre de l'Economie, des Finances et du Commerce extérieur ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ European Parliament - Bio
9. ↑ France's new government is in place ( Memento from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Stern from May 16, 2012
10. ^ Gesche Wüpper: Government in Paris: Faith War in Hollandes Ministry of Economics. In: welt.de . May 15, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Le Parisien August 30, 2013: Arnaud Montebourg se voit président de la République ... ou rien
12. ↑ Pierre Moscovici: EU Commissioner believes that Greece will default
13. ^ The station Europe 1 : Moscovici: "l'austérité, c'est fini"
14. ↑ faz.net: "End of the dogma of austerity"
15. ↑ Le Monde : [1]
16. ↑ RP April 30, 2013: [2]
17. ^ NZZ: Italy's head of government with Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande
18. ↑ Welt.de: Brussels reprimands seven EU states for "aggressive" tax policies , accessed on March 8, 2018.