Raphaël Glucksmann

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Raphaël Glucksmann (born October 15, 1979 in Paris ) is a French journalist , documentary filmmaker and politician. From 2008 to 2012 he advised the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili . Since 2018 he has been one of the leaders of the Place publique party . In the 2019 European elections , he was the top candidate for the Envie d'Europe écologique et sociale list (with PS and PRG ) and has been a member of the European Parliament since then .

Life

Youth, studies

Raphaël Glucksmann is the son of the French philosopher and essayist André Glucksmann . He attended the Lycée Henri IV and studied from 1999 to 2003 at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Journalist and director

Between 2001 and 2002 he worked as a correspondent for various Italian daily newspapers in Algeria . In 2002 he co-founded the NGO Études Sans Frontières (German section: Studying Without Borders ), which aims to enable students from war-torn countries, including Chechnya , Rwanda , the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan , to study in the West. Between 2004 and 2007 he made documentaries for French television, including the genocide in Rwanda and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine .

From 2013 to 2016 Glucksmann was co-managing director of an advertising agency. Since 2017 he has appeared as a columnist on the radio show Questions politiques on France Inter . From December 2017 to October 2018 he was also editor of the literary magazine Le Nouveau Magazine littéraire . Then he gave up his journalistic work in favor of his political activities.

Presidential Advisor

In 2008 he published an interview volume with Mikhail Saakashvili, Je vous parle de liberté . In it, the Georgian President gives information about his role in the 2008 Caucasus War and his political biography . Saakashvili then brought Glucksmann to Tbilisi as a personal advisor for foreign policy and European integration . Glucksmann remained loyal to the president for years and defended his policy to foreign correspondents in the Georgian parliamentary election campaign in 2012 . After the defeat of Saakashvili's United National Movement in this election, however, Glucksmann left Georgia with his then wife and returned to France.

politics

In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in France in 2007 , Glucksmann appeared as a supporter of the small, economic liberal party Alternative libérale and was temporarily announced as a candidate for this party in a constituency in Paris, but did not run. Glucksmann was initially - like his father - an outspoken supporter of the conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy, elected in 2007 . In 2015, he retrospectively described the support for Sarkozy as a mistake. In the 2017 presidential election campaign , he spoke out in favor of Benoît Hamon from the Socialist Party .

In November 2018, Glucksmann founded together with the economist Thomas Porcher , the environmental activist Claire Nouvian and the Alsatian local politician Jo Spiegel (Mayor of Kingersheim ; formerly PS member) the left-wing, ecological and pro-European party Place publique ("public square" or im figurative sense "public"). She ran for the European elections in May 2019 as part of a joint list with the Parti socialiste (PS), Parti radical de gauche (PRG) and the Nouvelle Donne party (a left-wing split from the PS). Glucksmann was the top candidate on this list, called Envie d'Europe écologique et sociale ("Desire for an ecological and social Europe"), which received 6.2% of the vote and five of the 74 French seats in the European Parliament .

Since then he has been a member of the European Parliament in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats (S&D). He is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights .

Private life

Glucksmann was married to the Georgian journalist Eka Zgouladze , who was (first) deputy minister of justice from 2005 to 2012 and acting minister of justice from September 20 to October 27, 2012 after the prison scandal . She was now granted Ukrainian citizenship at the beginning of December 2014 and was Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine in the Yatsenyuk II cabinet until May 2016 . The two have a son who was born in 2011.

Since 2015 he has been in a relationship with the journalist Léa Salamé , with whom he has had a son since 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raphaël Glucksmann , conseiller officieux de M. Saakachvili, France24, May 14, 2009
  2. ↑ Vincent Coquaz, Fabien Leboucq: Raphaël Glucksmann était-il candidat d'un mouvement ultralibéral aux législatives de 2007? In: Liberation (online), March 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ Maria Mala Gardis: Raphael Glucksmann. Une rage d'enfant. In: Liberation (online), April 20, 2015.
  4. ^ Européennes: Glucksmann présente son projet, "rencontre du social et de l'écologie". In: Le Figaro (online), May 6, 2019.
  5. ^ Entry on Raphaël Glucksmann in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
  6. ^ Former Georgian Official Tapped For Ukraine's Interior Ministry, December 12, 2014
  7. ↑ Audrey Kucinskas: Léa Salamé a accouché de son premier enfant. L'Express , March 14, 2017, accessed on January 22, 2018 (French).

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SURNAME Glucksmann, Raphaël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, documentary filmmaker and politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 15th October 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris