Henri Weber is a French politician

Politics of France

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 and Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 for the north-west of France

France

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. He is a member of the Socialist Party

Socialist Party (France)

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 (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists

Party of European Socialists

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, and sits on the European Parliament

European Parliament

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's Committee on Culture and Education.

Weber was born in Leninabad

Khujand

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, Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. He was an activist in the May 1968 uprising and was a leading member of the Trotskyist

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 Revolutionary Communist Youth

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 (JCR) and Revolutionary Communist League

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 (LCR) before joining the PS.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU

European Union

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–Russia

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 Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan

Japan

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.

Career

• Doctorate in philosophy
• Doctorate in politics
• Assistant lecturer (1968-1976), then senior lecturer (1976-1995) at the University of Paris
  University of Paris
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   VIII
• National secretary of the Socialist Party, with responsibility for national education, then for training, culture and the media (1993-2003)
• Member of the Socialist Party's policy bureau, with responsibility for universities
• Deputy mayor of Saint-Denis (1988-1995)
• Member of Dieppe Municipal Council (1995-2001)
• Senator (1995-2004)
• Member of the European Parliament
  European Parliament
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   (1997)
• Treasurer of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation (1988-1997)
• Essayist

External links

• European Parliament biography
• Declaration of financial interests (in French; PDF
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