Topic: Eric Besson
Quotes
We could just give it up altogether, which is my preferred option, because in the end it serves no purpose other than to bring the image of France into disrepute
France stops controversial DNA testing law Sep 15, 2009
We will take the time necessary to prepare the dismantlement of the camp, but the jungle must be gone before the end of the year
France to shut down Calais migrant camp Apr 24, 2009
This individual imposes the full veil upon his wife, does not allow her the freedom to go and come as she pleases, and bans her from going out with her face unveiled, and rejects the principles of secularism and equality between man and woman
France denies citizenship over veil Feb 03, 2010
I congratulated the teams ... for dismantling an important network of illegal immigration from China to Italy, Spain and Luxembourg, whose principal organizers were based in Paris and Shanghai
Immigrant smuggling ring busted in China Aug 06, 2010
The expression 'economic war' while sometimes outrageous, for once is appropriate
France at 'war' with corporate espionage Jan 06, 2011
Éric Besson (born 2 April 1958 in Marrakech, Morocco) is a French politician and Minister of Industry, Energy and the Digital economy under the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, Christine Lagarde. He was previously, from 2009 to 2010, Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Mutually-Supportive Development in the government of François Fillon.
He left the Socialist Party in 2007 to found The Progressives, a social democratic affiliate party of Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). He has been Deputy Secretary-General of the UMP since 2009.
Eric Besson was born in Morocco. His mother is from Lebanon and his father, a flight instructor in the French Air Force, was killed in a flight accident three months before Éric's birth. At 17, he settled with his family at Montélimar, France and studied at École supérieure de commerce in Montpellier, then in the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. Besson joined the French car company, Renault, then worked for Challenges, a business monthly, before joining the Vivendi foundation.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Eric Besson."