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Philippe Juvin (born 1 February 1964) is a French medical doctor and politician of the
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(LR) who served as a
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from
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until 2019 for the
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constituency. He is currently mayor of La Garenne-Colombes since 2001, member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France and Head of the Emergency Department of the European Research Hospital Georges Pompidou. The 3rd of April 2022, he reveals that he has temporary left France for
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, to help the medical staff and teach war medicine.


Medical career

Juvin is a Medical Doctor (MD), Professor of University since 2003, specializing in Anaesthetic and Intensive Care. He was a resident in the Ile-de-France area (1989), Clinic Head of the Universities at the
Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital The Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital ( ) is located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, and is operated by Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP). It was founded in 1881 as lHôpital Bichat'' (after Xavier Bichat), incorporati ...
(1993-1995), then a hospital practitioner at the Bichat Hospital (1995-2003). Moreover, he is a physician doctor (cardiac and respiratory cellular physiology) and a graduate in Forensic Medicine and Legal Compensation of Bodily Injury. He is Director of Emergency Medicine Teaching at Paris VII University (Emergency Medicine Certificate). He introduced Forensic Medicine teaching within Bichat University (1997-2003). Juvin is currently Head of the Emergency Department of the European Research Hospital Georges Pompidou, and was appointed after a selection procedure that started in March 2010. Previously Head of the Emergency Department of the
Beaujon Hospital The Beaujon Hospital () is located in Clichy, Paris, France and is operated by APHDP. It was named after Nicolas Beaujon, an eighteenth-century French banker A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and cr ...
, his department was rewarded for the excellent quality of its organization (for instance, drastic decrease in patients’ waiting time) and has been held up as an example by the French National Authority for Health, the press (Times, Le Parisien…), as a reference model in terms of organization of emergency departments in the Peter Gumbel's book "French Vertigo" The Beaujon Emergency Department is ranked among the four best emergency departments of Ile-de-France according to ''
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'' in 2011. Juvin is a reserve officer within the Paris Fire Brigade where he is regularly on duty as a doctor. He furthermore took part in OPEX; in 2008 he was on a mission for a few months in
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as anaesthetist within the French forces of the
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(ISAF) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) fighting the
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. He went several times in the Middle-East as part of his functions as an MEP (Member of the European Parliament). The 3rd of April 2022, he reveals that he has temporary left France for
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. He positively answered to the solicitation of "ukrainian colleagues", to help the medical staff and teach war medicine to soldiers, doctors and civilians.


Political career


Early beginnings

Juvin was president of the Union of Youths for Progress, a
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Gaullist youth movement, between 1989 and 1995. As a member of the
Rally for the Republic The Rally for the Republic (french: Rassemblement pour la République ; RPR ), was a Gaullist and conservative political party in France. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 a ...
, he joined the
Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Social ...
(UMP) in 2002. He has since held executive position within the UMP's
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section. Town Counsellor of La Garenne-Colombes at 19 years old, Juvin was elected Mayor of this town in 2001. He has always been elected in his municipality (Mayor, Town Counsellor) in the first round, with 54% of votes in 2001, 58% in 2004 (administrative district elections) and 67% in 2008. Vice-President of the Hauts-de-Seine Departmental Council from 2004 to 2009 (under the Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy), Juvin experimented the implementation of the RSA and of an Alzheimer departmental plan. He also implemented the return-to-work action plan of RSA beneficiaries, and tackled the issue of the schooling of disabled children. All those measures have been later on taken up at national level. Juvin is currently UMP Political Advisor after having been National Secretary in charge of Professional Federations and National Secretary in charge of Health, Solidarity and Disability. He is currently Mayor of La Garenne-Colombes, where he was first municipal councillor between 1983 and 2001 before being elected mayor that same year and easily re-elected in 2008. Since his election, he launched 4 twinning programmes for the city of La Garenne-Colombes with
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(Portugal) in 2004, Yoqneam (Israel) in 2006, Clarksville (United States) in 2008 and Daroun-Harissa (Lebanon) in 2011.


Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2019

In the 2009 European elections, Juvin was the fifth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the Île-de-France region, and was elected to the
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. Juvin was a
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from 2009 until 2019. He served on the
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and of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He was furthermore Vice-President of the inter-parliamentary delegation for the relations between the EU and
Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
, and a member of the inter-parliamentary delegation for the relations between the EU and
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. Juvin served as rapporteur for the European Parliament on a directive on the award of services and works concession contracts and works for the EPP on the regulation on
clinical trial Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietar ...
s. He was furthermore rapporteur for the European Parliament on the Impact of Advertising on Consumer Behaviour, and on electromagnetic fields, and worked as rapporteur for the EPP on a variety of files: the reinforcement of the rights of vulnerable consumers, the reduction of health inequalities within the EU, the establishment of a collective redress system at EU level, data protection, the reinforcement of the food supply chain in Europe and pharmacovigilance. Moreover, he was tasked by the French EPP Delegation to deal with the project of creation of a European Civil Protection Force. In addition to his committee assignments, Juvin is Vice-President of an EPP internal think-tank on the future of Internet (“Internet: Today and Tomorrow” Working Group). After
Michel Barnier Michel Barnier (born 9 January 1951) is a French politician who served as the European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom (UK Task Force/UKTF) from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as Chief Negotiator, Task ...
's nomination as
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, Juvin ran to chair the UMP group of PPE presidency. He was defeated with a very wide majority on February 9, 2010, his colleagues electing Jean-Pierre Audy. From June 2009 to January 2010, the date of his resignation of the General Council of the Hauts-de-Seine, Juvin kept his councillor's mandate looking till the definitive validation of the European elections of June, 2009. In response to France’s anti-terrorism legislation allowing
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of suspected terrorists following the
January 2015 Île-de-France attacks From 7 to 9 January 2015, terrorist attacks occurred across the Île-de-France region, particularly in Paris. Three attackers killed a total of 17 in four shooting attacks, and police then killed the three assailants. The attacks also wounded 22 ...
, Juvin and
Thierry Solère Thierry Solère (born 17 August 1971) is a French politician who has served as the member of the National Assembly for the 9th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine from 2012 to 2022. He was a member of The Republicans (LR) until 2017, when he joined ...
 sent a joint letter to
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Jean-Claude Juncker warning that, without proper safeguards, the new intelligence measures would violate the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In 2016, Juvin supported
Alain Lamassoure Alain Lamassoure (born 10 February 1944 in Pau) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He was a member of Les Républicains, which is part of the European People's Party, and was the chairman o ...
's candidacy as President of the European Parliament; the position eventually went to
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. For the Republicans' 2016 primaries, Juvin endorsed
Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Se ...
as the party's candidate for the
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. In the party's 2017 leadership election, he supported
Laurent Wauquiez Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez (; born 12 April 1975) is a French politician who has presided over the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since 2016. He is a member of The Republicans (LR), which he led from 2017 to 2019 following the ...
as new chairman. In 2018, Wauquiez included Juvin in his shadow cabinet; in this capacity, he served as opposition counterpart to Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly.


Candidacy for 2022 presidential election

In 2021, Juvin announced his intention to run as the Republicans’s candidate in the 2022 presidential election. During his campaign, Juvin defended the reduction of social security contributions, advocates the postponement of retirement to 65 years and the extension of the legal working week. On the other hand, he is not in favor of job cuts in the
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. In the field of government, he proposes the introduction of migration quotas, the temporary withdrawal of France from the
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, the exclusion of migrants from all social assistance for five years, the introduction of minimum sentences, and wants foreigners who commit serious offences to serve their sentences in their country of origin. Unlike his opponents in the party, he does not focus on immigration and security issues, seeking to introduce the theme of public services into the political debate. He is seen as the least
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of the LR competitors for the party nomination. At the party's 2021 congress, Juvin failed to win sufficient support and subsequently endorsed
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.


Publications

* ''Notre Histoire, les cent dates qui ont fait la nation européenne'', Paris, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2014, 250 p. () * ''Je ne tromperai jamais leur confiance'', Gallimard, 2021, 304 p. ()


Recognition

* Knight of the
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* Knight of the
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Extrait du Journal Officiel
* Knight of the Order of Academic Laurels * French Commemorative Decoration Afghanistan and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Decoration (NATO)


References

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