Pierre Moscovici is a French

France

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 politician, a member of the Departmental Council of Doubs and a Member of the French Parliament. He is a member of the French Socialist Party

Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

 (PS); part of the Party of European Socialists

Party of European Socialists

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. He has been National Secretary of his party since 1995.

Biography

Born in Paris

Paris

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, he is the son of the influential Romania

Romania

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n-Jewish social psychologist

Social psychology

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all...

 Serge Moscovici

Serge Moscovici

Serge Moscovici is a Romanian-born French social psychologist, currently the director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale , which he co-founded in 1974 at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris...

 and of the psychoanalyst

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...

 Marie Bromberg-Moscovici^{http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww1.alliancefr.com%2Fpierre-moscovici-desir-d-avenir-news0%2C39%2C3729.html}. Pierre Moscovici obtained a DEA

DEA (former French degree)

A Master of Advanced Studies is a non-consecutive postgraduate degree awarded predominantly in European countries. A MAS program offers comprehensive training in a specific field and can either give access to higher qualification in one's profession or lead to a new profession...

 in economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

, one in philosophy

Philosophy

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, and graduated the École nationale d'administration

École nationale d'administration

The École Nationale d'Administration , one of the most prestigious of French graduate schools , was created in 1945 by Charles de Gaulle to democratise access to the senior civil service. It is now entrusted with the selection and initial training of senior French officials...

 (where he studied under Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn , often referred to in the media, and by himself, as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party...

). He was also a president of À gauche en Europe, a group founded by Strauss-Kahn and Michel Rocard

Michel Rocard

Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party . He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion , a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Accords regarding the status...

.

Initially active in the Revolutionary Communist League

Revolutionary Communist League (France)

See Revolutionary Communist League for the other Ligue communiste révolutionnaire.The Revolutionary Communist League was a French democratic revolutionary socialist political party. It was the French section of the Fourth International...

, he left in 1984 to join the PS, and, in 1986, became secretary of the "experts' group" created by Claude Allègre

Claude Allègre

Claude Allègre is a French politician and scientist.- Scientific work :The main scientific area of Claude Allègre is geochemistry....

.

From 1997 to 2002 he was Minister for European Affairs in the government of Lionel Jospin

Lionel Jospin

Lionel Jospin is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995...

. On 20 July 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament

President of the European Parliament

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 and re-elected on 17 January 2007.

Political career

Governmental function

Minister of European Affairs : 1997-2002.

Electoral mandates

European Parliament

Member of European Parliament

European Parliament

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 : 1994-1997 (Elected in the National Assembly of France in 1997, and became minister) / 2004-2007 (Resignation, reelected member of the National Assembly of France in 2007). Elected in 1994, reelected in 2004.

National Assembly of France

Member of the National Assembly of France for Doubs

Doubs

Doubs is a department the Franche-Comté region of eastern France named after the Doubs River.-History:As early as the 13th century, inhabitants of the northern two-thirds of Doubs spoke the Franc-Comtois language, a dialect of Langue d'Oïl. Residents of the southern third of Doubs spoke a dialect...

 : Elected in 1997, but became minister in June) / And since 2007. Elected in 1997, reelected in 2007.

Regional Council

Regional councillor of Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté

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 : 1998-2004.

General Council

General councillor of Doubs

Doubs

Doubs is a department the Franche-Comté region of eastern France named after the Doubs River.-History:As early as the 13th century, inhabitants of the northern two-thirds of Doubs spoke the Franc-Comtois language, a dialect of Langue d'Oïl. Residents of the southern third of Doubs spoke a dialect...

 : 1994-2001.

Municipal Council

Municipal councillor of Valentigney

Valentigney

Valentigney is a commune in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France.Valentigney is best known as the place where Peugeot began operations; several members of the Peugeot family still live in the area....

 : Since 2008.

Municipal councillor of Montbéliard

Montbéliard

Montbéliard is a city in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department.-History:...

 : 1995-2008. Reelected in 2001.

Agglomeration community Council

President of the Agglomeration community of the Pays de Montbéliard : Since 2008.

Member of the Agglomeration community of the Pays de Montbéliard : Since 2008.