Jean Arthuis | |
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| Chair of the European Parliament Budget Committee | |
| In office 7 July 2014 – 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Alain Lamassoure |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 2019 | |
| Constituency | West France |
| Member of theFrench Senate | |
| In office 26 September 1995 – 30 September 2014 | |
| Constituency | Mayenne |
| Minister of the Economy and Finances | |
| In office 12 April 1995 – 22 March 1997 | |
| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Alain Juppé |
| Preceded by | Alain Madelin |
| Succeeded by | Dominique Strauss-Kahn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jean Georges[citation needed] Arthuis (1944-10-07)7 October 1944 (age 81) |
| Political party |  French:Centrist Alliance  EUALDE |
| Alma mater | Audencia Business School Sciences Po |
| Website | www |
Jean Arthuis (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃aʁtɥi]; born 7 October 1944[1] inSaint-Martin-du-Bois, Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician. Over the course of career, he has held various ministerial positions and served asMember of the European Parliament fromFrance, where he chaired theCommittee on Budgets.[1] He also serves asSenator representingMayenne in theFrench Parliament.[1]
He is the President of theCentrist Alliance political party and was a member of theALDE group in the European Parliament.[1]
Arthuis was born in 1944 in theLoire region of north-west France, where his parents ran a poultry business. He went to school inChâteau-Gontier, to which he returned after studying at theÉcole Supérieure de Commerce in Nantes andSciences Po in Paris. In 1971 he set up an accountancy business in the town.[2]
WhenJacques Chirac became president in 1995, Arthuis returned to government under prime ministerAlain Juppé. Initially in charge of economic planning, he was later promoted tofinance minister, succeedingAlain Madelin.[2] He represented France in negotiating the EU’sStability and Growth Pact, including crucial agreements at the Dublin summit in 1996.[2]
In early 1996, Arthuis and his German counterpartTheo Waigel launched a French-German economic stimulus package aimed at encouraging spending, increasing growth, cutting taxes on business and reducing unemployment.[3]
Under a plan announced by Arthuis in 1996, the state-run bankCaisse des dépôts et consignations bought more than two-thirds of the shares of nearly bankrupt property lenderCrédit Foncier de France and transfer its assets to another state-run entity, which was to liquidate them over 10 years; although Crédit Foncier was not state-owned, the government had to rescue it not only because of its large exposure to the bond market but also because many French people considered its shares to be among the most steady and risk-free.[4]
That same year, Arthuis called for an investigation of former top executives at the state-controlled bankCredit Lyonnais for concealing losses at one of its key units, Altus Finance.[5]
In 2012, Arthuis authored a high-profile report on the future eurozone forPrime MinisterFrançois Fillon.[2] In 2013,Jean-Louis Borloo of theUnion of Democrats and Independents (UDI) included Arthuis in hisshadow cabinet; in this capacity, he served as opposition counterpart to Minister of European AffairsThierry Repentin.[6]
Arthuis was aMember of the European Parliament (MEP) from the2014 elections until2019. In this capacity, he served as the chairman of theCommittee on Budgets. In 2014, he was the Parliament’s lead negotiator on the 2015budget of the European Union.[7] In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Long Term Investment and Reindustrialisation[8] and of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights.[9]
In a 2015 letter toMartin Schulz, thePresident of the European Parliament, andJerzy Buzek, the head of theConference of Committee Chairs, Arthuis argued his committee should take a greater role in economic governance of theeurozone.[10]
Arthuis publicly endorsedEmmanuel Macron in the2017 French presidential elections.[11]
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| Preceded by | Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry 1995-1997 | Succeeded by |
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