Pierre Karleskind

Pierre Karleskind
Member of the European Parliament
for France
In office
2 July 2019[1][2] – 15 July 2024
Member of the Regional Council of Brittany
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 December 2015
Personal details
Born (1979-10-19) 19 October 1979 (age 45)
NationalityFrench
Political partyPS (2005-2016)
LREM (since 2016)
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
European University Institute of the Sea
ProfessionOceanographer

Pierre Karleskind (born 19 October 1979) is a French oceanographer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.[3]

Political career

In parliament, Karleskind served on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and as member of the Committee on Fisheries. In 2020, he became the chairman of the Committee on Fisheries.

In addition to his committee assignments, Karleskind was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights,[4] the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,[5] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas,[6] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.[7]

In March 2024, Karleskind was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards[8]

Political positions

Karleskind mobilised 64 MEPs to officially refer the police’s mass arrest of LGBT activists in Poland to the European Commission.[9]

In a 2022 letter to European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, Karleskind – together with Stéphanie Yon-Courtin and Nathalie Loiseau – urged the EU to take measures to end British water treatment facilities’ discharges of raw sewage into shared waters, part of what they argued was an unacceptable lowering of environmental standards since Brexit.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ^ CAZENAVE, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Parlement européen. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France ?". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  4. ^ Members European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights.
  5. ^ Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development European Parliament.
  6. ^ Members 2019-2024 European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas.
  7. ^ MAC MEPs in the 2019-24 legislature MEPs Against Cancer.
  8. ^ "MEP Awards 2024 - The Rising Stars". The Parliament Magazine. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  9. ^ Alan Charlish (20 August 2020), MEPs refer Poland to European Commission over LGBT arrests Reuters.
  10. ^ Philip Blenkinsop (26 August 26 2022), The scum also rises - French lawmakers urge crackdown on UK sea sewage Reuters.
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