Raphaël Glucksmann (, born 15 October 1979) is a French journalist, film director, and

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. In May 2019, he was elected a

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, within the S&D alliance.

Early life and career

Glucksmann is the son of philosopher

André Glucksmann André Glucksmann (; 19 June 1937 – 10 November 2015) was a French philosopher, activist and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers. Glucksmann began his career as a Marxist, but went on to reject communism in the popular bo ...

. Between 2005 and 2012, he was an adviser to former President of

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Mikheil Saakashvili Mikheil Saakashvili ( ka, მიხეილ სააკაშვილი ; uk, Міхеіл Саакашвілі ; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist.

Political career

Beginnings

In 2018, Glucksmann founded the French

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French

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Place Publique Place Publique is a centre-left political party in France, founded in 2018 by Raphaël Glucksmann, Claire Nouvian, Jo Spiegel, and Thomas Porcher. In January 2019, the movement claimed 25,000 members. History Creation The party was offic ...

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

On 26 May 2019, Place publique and the French Socialist Party presented a joint list at the

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, with Glucksmann as the head, under the title "Envie d'Europe, écologique et sociale". The list obtained a total of 6.2%, thereby securing the election of six Members to the European Parliament: Glucksmann, Sylvie Guillaume, Eric Andrieu, Aurore Lalucq, Pierre Larrouturou, Nora Mebarek. In Parliament, Glucksmann has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Human Rights. Since 2020, he has been also chairing the Special Committee on "Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation". In addition to his committee assignments, Glucksmann is a member of the Responsible Business Conduct Working Group and the

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. In his parliamentary work, Glucksmann has focused attention on the

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, for which he has been sanctioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

Political positions

In May 2021, Glucksmann joined a group of 39 mostly Green Party lawmakers from the European Parliament who in a letter urged the leaders of Germany, France and Italy not to support Arctic LNG 2, a $21 billion Russian Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, due to climate change concerns. In November 2021, Glucksmann led a group of seven Members of the European Parliament to

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to send a strong signal in support of the self-ruling island, despite a threat of retaliation from China.

Personal life

Glucksmann was married to Georgian and Ukrainian politician Eka Zguladze until 2014. He has a son, Gabriel, born 12 March 2017, with journalist

Léa Salamé Hala Salamé, known as Léa Salamé (born 27 October 1979), is a Lebanese-born French journalist. Early life Hala Salamé is the daughter of Ghassan Salamé, former Lebanese Minister of Culture and former special advisor to UN Secretary-General ...

Publications

* ''Je vous parle de liberté'', with

, Paris,

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, 2008, . * ''Mai 68 expliqué à Nicolas Sarkozy'', with

, 2008, . * ''Génération gueule de bois, Manuel de lutte contre les réacs'',

Allary Éditions Allary Éditions is an independent French publishing house. History Founded in 2013 by Guillaume Allary, a former philosophy teacher from Nancy, who worked for the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, then Flammarion, Hachette Littéra ...

, 2015, . * ''Notre France. Dire et aimer ce que nous sommes'', Allary Éditions, 2016. * ''Les Enfants du vide. De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen'', Allary Éditions, 2018, . * ''Lettre à la génération qui va tout changer'', Allary Éditions, 2021, .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Glucksmann, Raphael 1979 births Living people 21st-century French essayists Film directors from Paris French male journalists French people of Czech-Jewish descent French people of Romanian-Jewish descent Sciences Po alumni MEPs for France 2019–2024 Place Publique MEPs People from Boulogne-Billancourt