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Pervenche Berès

Pervenche Berès

French politician

Pervenche Berès (born 10 March 1957 in Paris) is a French politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France until 2019. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

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Political career

On 28 July 2004, Berès was elected Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.[1] She was the rapporteur of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS).

Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2008 convention in Reims, Berès publicly endorsed Martine Aubry as candidate to succeed François Hollande at the party's leadership.[2]

Personal life

In 1995, Berès survived a near fatal traffic accident but lost half of her face, which was reconstructed by plastic surgery.[3]

Later career

In 2022, Berès was appointed by the Governing Council of the European Central Bank as a member of both the organizations’s Ethics Committee and the Audit Committee for a three-year term.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    European Parliament page
  2. [2]
    Des femmes du PS lancent un appel en faveur de Martine Aubry L'Obs, 4 June 2008.
  3. [3]
    Le Vaillant, Luc (8 June 1999). "Pervenche Berès, 42 ans, numéro 2 sur la liste du PS pour les élections européennes. S'acharne à surmonter un accident de scooter. Profil gauche". liberation.fr. Libération. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  4. [4]
    Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates) European Central Bank, press release of 22 July 2022.
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