Gilles Lebreton MEP
Member of the European Parliament forFrance
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2014
Member of theMunicipal council ofMontivilliers
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 March 2014
Mayor	Daniel Fidelin
Personal details
Born	(1958-10-11)11 October 1958 (age 66) Brest, France
Political party	National Rally
Alma mater	Panthéon-Assas University Paris-Sorbonne University
Profession	Jurist

Gilles Lebreton (born 11 October 1958) is a French lawyer and politician. A successive member ofSovereignty, Identity and Freedoms and the National Front, which became theNational Rally. He has been amunicipal councilor forMontivilliers andMember of the European Parliament forWest France since 2014.^[1]

Gilles Lebreton earned adoctorate inpublic law in 1987 from theUniversity of Paris II. One year later he earned adoctorate of philosophy from theUniversity of paris IV.^[2] Lebreton has been anassociate professor of public law at theUniversity of Le Havre since 1990.

Between 1995 and 2000, Lebreton was thedean of the university. From 2000 to 2011 he was the director of a research laboratory.

Lebreton has authored 15 legal works in France.^{[citation needed]} He is a Knight in the National Order of Merit and an Officer in theOrder of Academic palms.

In 2011, Lebreton resigned from the Research and Studies Group in Fundamental, International and Comparative Law atLe Havre Normandy University after he was appointed as an adviser toMarine Le Pen.^{[citation needed]} That same group of academics elected Lebreton twice as the president of the law section from 2013 to 2017.^{[citation needed]}

Lebreton first entered politics in France by joining theRally for France in 2000.

He campaigned forJean-Pierre Chevènement in the2002 French presidential election. Lebreton said that he was "disappointed by Chevènement during the 2002 campaign, who abandoned hisGaullist positioning and leftistrhetoric. His right-wing electorate abandoned him. He didn't succeed in creating a left-wingsovereigntism movement, which needed to break with the federalist PS, and he didn't cross the Rubicon."^[3]

He was Le Pen's higher education adviser from October 2011 to January 2015. He was a member of the political group since it started in 2012. Lebreton chose to leave the group in 2014. Lebreton had served as the group's vice president from April 2013 until his departure in November 2014. Gilles Lebreton then became a member of the political bureau of the National Front on 1 December 2014. Just one month later, he was one of the territorial delegates for the party at the 13 departments of the Western constituency (West France (European Parliament constituency) (for Bretagne, Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charentes).

Under the flag of theRassemblement bleu Marine (RBM), which joins the National Front and the SIEL, Lebreton was a candidate in the 2012 legislative elections and then was elected as a municipal councilor of Montivilliers in March 2014.^[4] Two months later he was elected as a member of the European Parliament. After theMay 2014 elections, he became a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and an alternate member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Lebreton was a member ofMarine Le Pen's strategic council for the2017 French presidential campaign. Then, in autumn 2017, he coordinated small committee that drafted a "simplified treaty" with the aim of building an "alternative to theEuropean Union", evoking a "median path" "between the choice of an unchanged EU and isolated inward-looking nations”.^[5] In January 2019 ,L'Opinion indicated that he "contributed to the new European orientations of the party since the summer of 2017" .^[6]

In February 2018 , he succeededÉdouard Ferrand as the head of the FN delegation to the European Parliament .

He appeared in11^e position on the RN list for the2019 European elections^[7] and was re-elected. He is currently a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture and an alternate member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

Gilles Lebreton is the author of a report on the use of artificial intelligence in the military and sovereign domains which was adopted by the European Parliament on 20 January 2021 by 364 votes to 274. In it he recommends in particular to useLethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS, known as "killer robots") only as a "last resort", always under human control, and in strict compliance withhumanitarian law and the1949 Geneva Conventions.^[8]

InPublic Liberties and Human Rights (2008 edition), Gilles Lebreton says he regrets that some leaders of the National Front quoteCarl Schmitt, denouncing the "danger to public freedoms" that the author's thought constitutes and that he calls it a “philosophy of exclusion”. In a 2014 interview, however, he mentions that believes that the National Front "has evolved considerably in recent years" and that it had abandoned the referencing of Schmitt.^[9]

In March 2020, as relating to theCOVID-19 pandemic, he is the only Frenchsignatory of a letter signed by 37MEPs and addressed to the presidents of the three European institutions, which calls for "postponing new legislation within the framework of initiatives such as the European "Green Deal ".^[10]

• Armand Colin, ed. (2008).Libertés publiques et droits de l'homme (in French). Paris. p. 572.ISBN 978-2-247-08120-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Armand Colin, ed. (1996).Droit administratif général (in French). Vol. I. Paris. p. 255.ISBN 2-200-01459-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Armand Colin, ed. (1996).Droit administratif général (in French). Vol. II. Paris. p. 216.ISBN 2-200-01460-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Dalloz, ed. (2021).Droit administratif général (in French). Paris. p. 622.ISBN 978-2-247-20643-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (1998).Les Droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine en 1995 et 1996 (in French). Paris. p. 219.ISBN 2-7384-6749-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (2000).L'Évolution des droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine en 1997 et 1998 (in French). Paris. p. 249.ISBN 2-7384-9675-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (2002).Regards critiques sur l'évolution des droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine en 1999 et 2000 (in French). Paris. p. 289.ISBN 2-7475-2613-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (2004).Interrogations sur l'évolution des droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine en 2001 et 2002 (in French). Paris. p. 249.ISBN 2-7475-6635-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (2006).Valeurs républicaines et droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine en 2003 et 2004 (in French). Paris. p. 199.ISBN 2-296-01236-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Dir. avecJean Foyer et Catherine Puigelier (2008). Presses universitaires de France (ed.).L'Autorité (in French). Paris. pp. VIII + 328.ISBN 978-2-13-056632-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (2009).Crises sociales et droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine (in French). Paris. p. 280.ISBN 978-2-296-10481-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (2011).Sarkozysme et droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine (in French). Paris. p. 338.ISBN 978-2-296-54577-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (2013).La Démocratie participative (in French). Paris. p. 268.ISBN 978-2-336-00719-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• L'Harmattan, ed. (2014).Crises d'identité et droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine (in French). Paris. p. 279.ISBN 978-2-343-02225-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• en collaboration avec J. Bouveresse, C. Puigelier, et C. Willmann (2011). Bruylant (ed.).La Dispute (in French). Bruxelles. p. 262.ISBN 978-2-8027-3491-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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