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Henri Weber (23 June 1944 – 26 April 2020) was a
French politician The politics of France take place with the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the French Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic". ...
and
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for the north-west of
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
. He was a member of the
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(PS), which is part of the
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, and sat on the
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's
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. Weber was born in Leninabad (now
Khujand Khujand ( tg, Хуҷанд, Khujand; Uzbek: Хўжанд, romanized: Хo'jand; fa, خجند‌, Khojand), sometimes spelled Khodjent and known as Leninabad (russian: Ленинабад, Leninabad; tg, Ленинобод, Leninobod; fa, لنی ...
),
Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
,
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, in a Soviet labor camp, on a hospital ship moored on the banks of the
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river, to Polish Jewish parents who had fled from the town of Chrzanow, Galicia, during the
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1939 invasion of Poland, and who later immigrated to France from Poland. His father was a watchmaker. Henri Weber was an activist in the
May 68 Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, as well as the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which h ...
uprising and was a leading member of the
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'' Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire'' (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS. He was also a substitute for the
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, a member of the delegation to the EU
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Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan. Weber died, aged 75, after contracting
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during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.


Career

* Doctorate in philosophy * Doctorate in politics * Assistant lecturer (1968–1976), then senior lecturer (1976–1995) at the University of Paris 8 * National secretary of the
Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...
, with responsibility for national education, then for training, culture and the media (1993–2003) * Member of the Socialist Party's policy bureau, with responsibility for universities * Deputy mayor of Saint-Denis (1988–1995) * Member of
Dieppe Dieppe (; Norman: ''Dgieppe'') is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to N ...
Municipal Council (1995–2001) * Senator (1995–2004) * Member of the
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(1997) * Treasurer of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation (1988–1997) * Essayist


Reviews

* Wilkinson, Paul (1982), ''Why
Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
?'', which includes a review of ''Nicaragua: The Sandinist Revolution'' by Henri Weber, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), ''
Cencrastus ''Cencrastus'' was a magazine devoted to Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs, founded after the Referendum of 1979 by students, mainly of Scottish literature at Edinburgh University, and with support from Cairns Craig, then a ...
'' No. 10, Autumn 1982, pp. 45 & 46,


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European Parliament biography

Declaration of financial interests
(in French; PDF file) 1944 births 2020 deaths MEPs for North-West France 2004–2009 MEPs for Massif-central–Centre 2009–2014 Socialist Party (France) MEPs Senators of Seine-Maritime French people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish French politicians People from Khujand Polish emigrants to France Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur {{France-MEP-stub