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Patrice Vergriete
Patrice Vergriete (; born 4 July 1968) is a French politician who has served as Mayor of Dunkirk since 2024, previously holding the office from 2014 to 2023. He served in government as Minister Delegate for Housing (2023–2024) and Minister Delegate for Transport (2024) under successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal. Biography Born to a boilermaker father at Chantiers de France and a homemaker mother, Vergriete was raised in the bustling Glacis neighbourhood of Dunkirk. Following his completion of the baccalaureate, he pursued further education in Paris by attending a scientific preparatory programme at the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Succeeding in the École polytechnique entrance exam, he became a member of the class of 1989. In 1995, he specialised at the École des ponts ParisTech, obtaining his diploma to become a bridges, waters and forests engineer. At the end of the 1990s, he began his professional career at the OECD, then joined the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Transport (France)
The Minister of Transport (French language, French: ''Ministre des Transports'') is a Minister (government), cabinet member in the Government of France. The post is currently that of a junior minister within the Ministry of Ecological Transition (France), Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion. The position was created in 1870 as a modification to the position of Minister of Public Works (''Ministre des Travaux Publics''), which had been established in 1830. It has frequently been combined with the position of Minister of Public Works (France), Minister of Infrastructure (''Ministre de l'Équipement''), Minister in charge of Housing (France), Minister of Housing (''Ministre du Logement''), Minister of Tourism (France), Minister of Tourism (''Ministre du Tourisme''), Minister of Territorial Development (France), Minister of Territorial Development (''Ministre de l'Aménagement du territoire''), as well as Minister of the Sea (France), Minister of the Sea (''Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris), rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris. It was founded in the early 1560s by the Jesuits as the Collège de Clermont, was renamed in 1682 after King Louis XIV ("Louis the Great"), and has remained at the apex of France's secondary education system despite its disruption in 1762 following the suppression of the Society of Jesus. It offers both a high school curriculum, and a Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, Classes Préparatoires post-secondary-level curriculum in the sciences, business and khâgne, humanities. Location Louis-le-Grand is located in the heart of the , the centuries-old student district of Paris. It is surrounded by other storied educational institutions: the University of Paris, Sorbonne to its west, across rue Saint-Jacques; the Collège de France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 France Railway Arson Attack
On 26 July 2024, the day of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, a series of arson attacks damaged the LGV Atlantique, Nord, and Est lines of the French high-speed railway system. International and domestic rail services were widely disrupted, with around 800,000 passengers affected. There was also an attempted attack on LGV Sud-Est line, though it was interrupted by TGV maintenance workers who happened to be on site. Background A previous attack was avoided on 8 May during the arrival of the Olympic flame in Marseille, when police found four incendiary devices on the LGV Méditerranée line between Aix and Marseille. Attacks Four signal boxes along the lines connecting Paris with cities such as Lille in the north, Bordeaux in the west and Strasbourg in the east were damaged, while an attack on the LGV Sud-Est line was interrupted. Eurostar later confirmed that they had cancelled one in four trains as the arson attacks caused high-speed rail disruption. Apart fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attal Government
The Attal government ( French: ''gouvernement Attal'') was the forty-fourth government of the French Fifth Republic, formed on 9 January 2024 and headed by Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. It served as a caretaker government from July to September 2024, before Michel Barnier was appointed prime minister. The Attal cabinet was a three-party minority government as a result of the 2022 legislative election that left the governing coalition short of an absolute majority in Parliament. His government managed to survive votes of no confidence thanks to the repeated abstentions of MPs from The Republicans. Following the second round of the 2024 legislative election, Attal remained Prime minister until the appointment of Michel Barnier on 5 September. History Formation Context In late December 2023, the passage of an immigration and asylum bill originating from a deal struck between Borne's minority government and the conservative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borne Government
The Borne government ( French: ''gouvernement Borne'') was the forty-third government of the French Fifth Republic, formed on 16 May 2022 and headed by Élisabeth Borne as Prime Minister under President Emmanuel Macron. It served as a caretaker government in early January 2024, before Gabriel Attal was appointed prime minister by Macron. Despite its minority status as a result of the June 2022 legislative election, the Borne government had survived multiple votes of no confidence in the National Assembly: one in July 2022 after Macron's refusal to accept the government's resignation, three in October 2022 in response to the use of constitutional article 49.3 by the government to pass a social security bill, and two in March 2023, again in response of the use of article 49.3 to pass a pension reform bill. All of them were thanks to the abstentions of MPs from The Republicans. The Borne government was reshuffled twice, first in July 2022, second in July 2023. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 2023 French Government Reshuffle
Emmanuel Macron carried out the second major reshuffle of his minority government, led by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, in July 2023. Following the "hundred days of appeasement and action" Macron called for in April 2023, the reshuffle had been highly anticipated and briefed in the press. There were reports of a potential change of prime minister and likely removal of ministers who had not drawn enough attention on their departments' policies or ministers who had underperformed the President's expectations. The reshuffle was seen as an opportunity for Macron to "reset" his presidency, after the contentious passage of a pension system reform and the 2023 French riots, and reassert his authority, significantly diminished following the result of the legislative election the previous year. Despite expectations that the reshuffle was to be pivotal to the rest of Macron's second term and that it would indicate a clear, fresh political direction for the country, few changes to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
