Bernard Poignant
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Bernard Poignant (born 19 September 1945 in Vannes, Morbihan, Brittany) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Regional Development.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and a member of the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He is also a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Kazakhstan, EU–Kyrgyzstan and EU–Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.
Career
- Highest postgraduate teaching qualification in history (1970)
- Former Chairman of the National Federation of Socialist and Republican Elected Representatives
- Mayor of Quimper (1989–2001 and 2008-2014)
- Member of the French Parliament (1981–1986 and 1988–1993)
- Member of the European Parliament (1999-2009)
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
External links
- Weblog of Bernard Poignant Archived 2021-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Website of Bernard Poignant
- European Parliament biography
- Declaration of financial interests[permanent dead link] (in French; PDF file)
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Webarchive template wayback links
- All articles with dead external links
- Articles with dead external links from October 2016
- Articles with permanently dead external links
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with Sycomore identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Politicians from Vannes
- MEPs for West France 2004–2009
- Socialist Party (France) MEPs
- MEPs for France 1999–2004
- Rennes 2 University alumni
- All stub articles
- French MEP stubs