Pierre Karleskind (born 19 October 1979) is a French oceanographer and politician of

La République En Marche! Renaissance (RE), previously known as La République En Marche ! (frequently abbreviated LREM, LaREM or REM; translated as "The Republic on the Move" or "Republic Forward"), or sometimes called simply En Marche ! () as its original name, is a l ...

(LREM) who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in

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Political career

In parliament, Karleskind has since been serving on the

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and as member of the

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. In 2020, he became the chairman of the Committee on Fisheries. In addition to his committee assignments, Karleskind is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights, the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas, and the

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group.

Political positions

Karleskind mobilised 64 MEPs to officially refer the police’s mass arrest of LGBT activists in Poland to the European Commission. In a 2022 letter to European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

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, Karleskind – together with

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (born 28 March 1974) is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Early career In the late 1990s, Yon-Courtin spent nearly ...

and

Nathalie Loiseau Nathalie Loiseau (born 1 June 1964) is a French politician, diplomat and academic administrator who has served as a Member of European Parliament since 2019. Previously she was director of the École nationale d'administration (ENA) from 2012 t ...

– urged the EU to take measures to end British water treatment facilities’ discharges of raw sewage into shared waters, part of what they argued was an unacceptable lowering of environmental standards since Brexit.Philip Blenkinsop (26 August 26 2022)
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References

1979 births Living people MEPs for France 2019–2024 Renaissance (French political party) MEPs Renaissance (French political party) politicians École Polytechnique alumni {{France-MEP-stub