Carole Grandjean (born 18 May 1983) is a French politician of
Renaissance
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(RE) who served as
Minister Delegate for Education and Vocational Training in the
Borne government
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from 2022 to 2024. From 2017 to 2022 and briefly in 2024, she was a member of the
National Assembly
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, representing the
first constituency of
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a '' département'' in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, ...
.
Political career
Member of the National Assembly, 2017–2022
In parliament, Grandjean served as member of the Committee on Social Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs. On the Committee on Social Affairs, she was her parliamentary group's
co-rapporteur on the government's pension reform plans since 2020, alongside
Guillaume Gouffier-Cha,
Jacques Maire and
Corinne Vignon.
In addition to her committee assignments, Grandjean was a member of the French-British Parliamentary Friendship Group. From 2019, she was also a member of the French delegation to the
Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.
Career in government, 2022–2024
In October 2023, Grandjean participated in the first joint cabinet retreat of the German and French governments in Hamburg, chaired by
Chancellor
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Olaf Scholz and
President Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017. He was Ministry of Economy and Finance (France), Minister of Economics, Industr ...
.
Political positions
In 2018, Grandjean joined other co-signatories around
Sébastien Nadot in officially filing a request for a commission of inquiry into the legality of French weapons sales to the
Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, days before an official visit of
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Paris.
In July 2019, Grandjean voted in favor of the French ratification of the
European Union
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’s
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with
Canada
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.
[Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019)]
CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés
''Le Monde
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''.
See also
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2017 French legislative election
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References
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1983 births
Living people
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Renaissance (French political party) politicians
21st-century French women politicians
People from Suresnes
Politicians from Île-de-France
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of the Borne government
Members of Parliament for Meurthe-et-Moselle