Yves Pozzo di Borgo

Yves Pozzo di Borgo
Member of the Council of Paris
Assumed office
18 March 2001
Mayor Bertrand Delanoë
Anne Hidalgo
Member of the French Senate for Paris
In office
2004–2017
Personal details
Born (1948-05-03) 3 May 1948
Ajaccio, France
Nationality French
Political party UDI

Yves Pozzo di Borgo (born 3 May 1948) is a French politician of Corsican origin. He is a member of the Senate of France, representing the city of Paris for the Centrist Union.

Political career

In parliament, Pozzo di Borgo is the deputy chairman of the Committee on European Affairs. He also serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Defence Committee.

In addition to his committee assignments, Pozzo di Borgo is the president of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan) and a member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Pozzo di Borgo publicly endorsed François Bayrou in the 2012 presidential elections.

Since 2014, Pozzo di Borgo has also been serving as member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In this capacity, he is a member of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy; the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs; and the Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism. He has in the past been the Assembly’s rapporteur on the European Court of Human Rights (2015)[1] and on the protection of human rights defenders (2017).[2]

In July 2015, Pozzo di Borgo accompanied Thierry Mariani and 10 other party members on a controversial visit to the recently annexed Crimea.[3]

In 2016, Pozzo di Borgo publicly endorsed Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet in the Republicans' primaries for the 2017 presidential elections.[4]

Other activities

  • Association Dialogue Franco-Russe, Member of the Bureau[5]
  • Institut Jean Lecanuet, President[6]

References

  1. ↑ Upholding human rights: a national task as well as one for the Strasbourg Court Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of 24 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Arrest of Taner Kiliç: PACE rapporteur expresses deep concern Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of 8 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Sabrina Tavernise (July 25, 2015), French Lawmakers Visit Crimea, to the Dismay of Officials Back Home New York Times.
  4. ↑ « Primaire à droite : Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet a réuni assez de parrainages », Le Monde, 8 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Bureau Association Dialogue Franco-Russe.
  6. ↑ The Institute Institut Jean Lecanuet, Paris.
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