Sylvie Goulard

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Sylvie Goulard at the event to mark the start of the European elections for the Mouvement démocrate (MoDem) on February 8, 2009 in Paris

Sylvie Goulard (born December 6, 1964 in Marseille ) is a French political scientist, politician ( MoDem ) and essayist. From May to June 2017 she was Minister of Defense in the Philippe I cabinet .

Career

Sylvie Goulard (2019)

Goulard works at the Center d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) and teaches at the European College in Bruges . She is a lawyer with a degree from Aix-Marseille University , a graduate of the elite universities Sciences Po (1986) and the École nationale d'administration (ENA) (1989), was an advisor to Romano Prodis in the European Commission from 2001 to 2004 and is Member of the French Mouvement démocrate (MoDem) party and member of the European Parliament in the ALDE group since June 2009 . From 2006 to 2010 Goulard was President of the Mouvement Européen -France.

From 2009 to May 2017, Goulard was a member of the EU Parliament and since 2009 a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Delegation for Relations with Japan . She was also on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development .

In May 2017 she appeared as an advisor to French President-elect Emmanuel Macron . From May 17 to June 20, 2017, she was French Defense Minister. She resigned on bogus employment allegations against her party MoDem. A day later, MoDem party president François Bayrou , French deputy prime minister and minister of justice, resigned for the same reason . Florence Parly was appointed her successor .

In the course of the affair, the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné revealed that from 2013 to 2016 Goulard had received “more than 10,000 euros” (probably 12,000 to 13,000) monthly consultancy fees from the private US think tank Berggruen Institute . Berggruen's brother helped finance Macron's election campaign. Goulard had this income, which she had received for two papers totaling 28 pages (with table of contents) and the participation in a conference during her time as a MEP (which earned her the accusation of accumulating offices and accepting fees without consideration) declared, but they were brought up again in the context of Macron's promise to end the lax maneuvering past rules. In the summer of 2019, she had to repay 45,000 euros to the EU Parliament because she could not prove that one of her employees had actually worked for her in her function as a parliamentarian.

In January 2018, Goulard was appointed Vice President of the Banque de France .

On August 28, 2019, she was nominated by France as EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services in the upcoming von der Leyen Commission from November 1, 2019. In a vote in the relevant specialist committee of the EU Parliament on October 10, 2019, however, she did not get the required majority: 29 MPs voted for her, 82 against her. The reason for the rejection was the ongoing proceedings against Goulard because of the possible sham employment of an assistant at the expense of the European Parliament. The main displeasure of MEPs was Goulard's statement that it is customary in France to resign when an indictment is brought, but that this tradition does not exist in EU offices. After the failure of her candidacy, French President Macron, who had previously successfully campaigned for the expansion of the Internal Market Commissioner's portfolio, also expressed disappointment with the behavior of Commission President- designate Ursula von der Leyen . This would have signaled the approval of the center-right parliamentary group, the social democrats and socialists as well as the liberals and centrists ( Renaissance parliamentary group) beforehand. The concern that the expanded portfolio would bring too much power with it, as well as the conflict with Macron over the question of the European top candidates were probably decisive for the disagreement of many MPs and act as a damper for Macron's reform ambitions.

Besides French, Sylvie Goulard speaks fluent German, Italian and English.

Relation to Germany

Goudard began her professional life in 1989 in the legal department of the French Foreign Ministry and took part in the French team in the negotiations of the two-plus-four contract .

Between 1996 and 1999 she led various projects at the Center d'analysis et de prevention (CAP, planning staff of the French Foreign Ministry) and worked closely with the German planning staff ( Foreign Office ).

Political positions

In her activities, Sylvie Goulard emphasizes the need for closer European integration and increased public discussion about Europe's challenges. In the future, the European Union should involve Europeans more and prepare them better by making them better informed and becoming more active themselves. To this end, the European Union should better promote exchange programs and foreign language teaching.

At the end of 2006 she was elected President of the European Movement France ( Mouvement Européen-France , MEF). MEF is an association that promotes greater European integration in France. In September 2010, Goulard was instrumental in founding the Spinelli Group , which advocates European federalism and an increase in the EU budget in the European Parliament , as well as calling for its own EU army. She also had a decisive influence on Macron's foreign policy program. Nadia Pantel called her in the Züricher Tagesanzeiger and in the Süddeutsche Zeitung a “super-European”.

Honors

Fonts

  • De la démocratie en Europe with Mario Monti , 2012
  • Il faut cultiver notre jardin européen , Seuil, 2008
  • Le Coq et la perle , Seuil, 2007
  • L'Europe pour les nuls (Europe for Dummies), First, 2007
  • EU – Turkey. A forced marriage? (Original title: Le grand Turc et la République de Venise), Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag (BWV), Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-8305-1116-7
  • Carlo Altomonte, Pierre Defraige, Lucas Delatre, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , Sylvie Goulard, Rudolf Scharping : Le Partenariat privilégié, alternative à l'adhésion . Robert Schuman Foundation, 2006, ISSN  1761-2233 .

Web links

Commons : Sylvie Goulard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Sylvie Goulard in the Members' database of the European Parliament
  2. ^ Les Présidents du Mouvement Européen-France. Mouvement Européen – France, archived from the original on May 20, 2013 ; Retrieved April 5, 2013 .
  3. ^ Defense Minister Goulard resigns . Spiegel Online, June 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ Fake employment affair - France's Justice Minister Bayrou resigns . Spiegel Online, June 21, 2017
  5. ↑ Ludovic Lamant: La candidate Sylvie Goulard accrochée par les eurodéputés sur les affaires , archive.wikiwix.com, October 2, 2019.
  6. ↑ Luc Peillon: Que faisait Sylvie Goulard pour être payée 12,000 euros par mois par un think tank America? In: liberation.fr, September 3, 2019. Includes a copy of their declaration on additional income.
  7. ^ A b Sylvie Goulard, the super-European. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. August 29, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Peter Müller and Andreas Wassermann: MEPs target Macron's candidate. September 28, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  9. ^ ORF (Vienna): Paris nominates ex-minister Goulard for commission , August 28, 2019
  10. ↑ EU parliament stops Macron's candidate for commission. In: ORF.at . October 10, 2019, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  11. ^ Parliament stops France's candidate Sylvie Goulard. Time online, October 10, 2019, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Emmanuel Berretta: Sylvie Goulard, un portefeuille trop gros? in: lepoint.fr, October 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ Nadia Pantel: The Over-European . in: tagesanzeiger.ch, August 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Goulard, Sylvie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French political scientist and politician, MEP, President of the Mouvement Européen-France
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille