Kader Arif, (born 3 July 1959 in Algiers

Algiers

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) 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 south-west of France

France

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. He is a member of the Socialist Party

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, which is part of the Party of European Socialists

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, and sits on the European Parliament

European Parliament

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's Committee on International Trade

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.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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 and a member of the delegations to the EU

European Union

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–Turkey

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 Joint Parliamentary Committee, the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

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, and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

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. Recently, he signed the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group

Spinelli Group

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 for a federal Europe.

Career

• Master's degree in communications
• Special adviser to Lionel Jospin (1988–1992)
• Chargé d'affaires (1992–1995)
• Regional director of a tour operator (1995–1999)
• University manager (1999–2001)
• First federal secretary, Haute-Garonne Socialist Party (since 1999)
• Member of the Socialist Party national bureau (since 2000)
• Socialist Party national secretary, with responsibility for globalisation
• Member of Castanet-Tolosan Municipal Council, with responsibility for sport (1995–2001)

External links

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