Yves Pozzo di Borgo
{{short description|French politician}}
{{Expand French|topic=gov|date=February 2017}}
{{ infobox officeholder
| name = Yves Pozzo di Borgo
| image = Yves Pozzo di Borgo 2007 06 06.jpg
| office = Member of the Council of Paris
| term_start = 18 March 2001
| term_end =
| 1blankname1 = Mayor
| 1namedata1 = Bertrand Delanoë
Anne Hidalgo
| office2 = Member of the French Senate for Paris
| term_start2 = 2004
| term_end2 = 2017
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|05|03|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Ajaccio, France
| nationality = French
| party = UDI
}}
Yves Pozzo di Borgo (born 3 May 1948) is a French politician, born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He was a member of the Senate of France from 2004 to 2017, representing the city of Paris for the Centrist Union.
Political career
In parliament, Pozzo di Borgo was the deputy chairman of the Committee on European Affairs. He also served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Defence Committee.
In addition to his committee assignments, Pozzo di Borgo was the president of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, 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.
From 2004 until 2017, Pozzo di Borgo also served as member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In this capacity, he was 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 had previously been the Assembly's rapporteur on the European Court of Human Rights (2015)[http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=5581&lang=2&cat= 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. and on the protection of human rights defenders (2017).[http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=6688&lang=2&cat=5 Arrest of Taner Kiliç: PACE rapporteur expresses deep concern] Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of 8 June 2017.
In July 2015, Pozzo di Borgo accompanied Thierry Mariani and 10 other party members on a controversial visit to the recently annexed Crimea.Sabrina Tavernise (July 25, 2015), [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/world/europe/france-lawmakers-visit-crimea-russia.html French Lawmakers Visit Crimea, to the Dismay of Officials Back Home] New York Times.
In 2016, Pozzo di Borgo publicly endorsed Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet in the Republicans' primaries for the 2017 presidential elections.[http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/article/2016/09/08/primaire-a-droite-nathalie-kosciusko-morizet-a-reuni-les-parrainages-necessaires_4994822_4854003.html « Primaire à droite : Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet a réuni assez de parrainages »], Le Monde, 8 September 2016.
Other activities
- Association Dialogue Franco-Russe, Member of the Bureau[http://dialoguefrancorusse.com/fr/association/notre-mission/1569-yves-pozzo-di-borgo.html Bureau] Association Dialogue Franco-Russe.
- Institut Jean Lecanuet, President[http://www.institutjeanlecanuet.org/l-institut The Institute] Institut Jean Lecanuet, Paris.
References
{{reflist}}
Links
- [http://www.senat.fr/senfic/pozzo_di_borgo_yves04080j.html Page on the Senate website]
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pozzo di Borgo, Yves}}
Category:Centre of Social Democrats politicians
Category:Union for French Democracy politicians
Category:The Centrists politicians
Category:Democratic European Force politicians
Category:French senators of the Fifth Republic
Category:Union of Democrats and Independents politicians
Category:Politicians from Ajaccio
{{France-politician-UDI-stub}}