Yannick Jadot

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yannick Jadot (2014)

Yannick Jadot (born July 27, 1967 in Clacy-et-Thierret , Département Aisne ) is a French environmental activist and politician ( EELV ). Jadot has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 and was re-elected in 2014 and 2019. In the media he is regarded as the “Green figurehead” of France.

Life

Jadot studied economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine . He lived for several years in Burkina Faso and in Bangladesh , where he worked in development aid and environmental protection. Jadot is a member of Solagral , a non-governmental organization that specializes in following international conferences on trade, environment, agriculture and other issues, while assisting developing countries. In addition, Jadot led various campaigns for Greenpeace France from 2002 to 2008 and was one of the founders and spokesman for Alliance pour la planète , an umbrella organization for various environmental associations.

Political career

At the beginning of September 2008, Jadot announced that he would leave Greenpeace and join the newly founded green electoral alliance Europe Écologie , with which the French Greens , led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, ran for the 2009 European elections in France . Jadot was the top candidate in the Ouest constituency and won a seat in the European Parliament . He was deputy chairman of the committee on international trade in the seventh parliamentary term .

Jadot ran for Europe Écologie-Les Verts in the 2017 presidential election in France . On February 23, 2017, he announced that he was giving up his candidacy in favor of the candidate Benoît Hamon ( PS ).

For the 2019 European elections, his party nominated him as the top candidate on the joint list of Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV), Alliance écologiste indépendante (AEI) and Régions et peuples solidaires . The joint list won 13.43 percent, 13 of the 79 French mandates. Jadot rejoined the Greens / EFA group . In the ninth legislative term of parliament he is a member of the committee for environmental issues, public health and food safety and a deputy member of the committee for international trade .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Local elections in France 2020 , Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 6, 2020, accessed March 16, 2020
  2. ^ Election campaign in France: Green candidate Jadot renounces for socialists . In: Spiegel Online . February 23, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 5, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Home | Yannick JADOT | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Jadot, Yannick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French environmental activist, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Clacy-et-Thierret , Aisne department