- Brice Hortefeux
Brice Hortefeux (born
11 May 1958 inNeuilly-sur-Seine ,Hauts-de-Seine but was raised in Auvergne) is a French politician and Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Cooperative Development. He was previously Minister-Delegate for Local Government at the Ministry of the Interior and was aMember of the European Parliament for centralFrance .Overview
He is a member of the
Union for a Popular Movement , which is part of theEuropean People's Party , and sits on theEuropean Parliament 's Committee on International Trade.He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets and a member of the delegation for relations with the
Maghreb countries and theArab Maghreb Union .Brice Hortefeux is the "first lieutenant" of French politician
Nicolas Sarkozy .On
18 May 2007 , he was appointed as the first Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Cooperative Development in the government of Prime MinisterFrançois Fillon .Brice Hortefeux wrongly claims on his official CV to have graduated from
Sciences-Po [ Augustin Scalbert, [http://www.rue89.com/2007/09/18/un-soupcon-de-vantardise-sur-les-cv-ministeriels Un soupçon de vantardise sur les CV ministériels] , "Rue 89 ", 18 September 2007 fr icon] .Career
* Degree in
private law (1982)
* Master's degree inpublic law (1984)
* Studied in "Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)"
* Local authority administrator (1986-1994)
* Prefect, given responsibility for a government public service mission (1995)
* Special adviser in the office of the President of the Senate (1998-1999)
* Head of office of the Minister for the Budget and Communications and government spokesman (1993-1995)
* Departmental secretary,Puy-de-Dôme RPR Federation (1991-2001)
* Member of the RPR political committee (1998-2002)
* Member of the UMP political bureau (since 2002)
* Member of Auvergne Regional Council (since 1992)
* Chairman of the finance committee and rapporteur on thebudget , Auvergne Regional Council (since 1998)
* Member of theEuropean Parliament (since 1999)References
External links
* [http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ilg=EN&iucd=5565 European Parliament biography]
* [http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6-dif/5565_07-09-2004.PDF Declaration of financial interests] (in French; PDF file)
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