Hugues Bayet

Hugues Bayet
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2014 – 2019
ConstituencyBelgian French-speaking electoral college
Personal details
Born12 April 1975 (1975-04-12) (age 49)
Farciennes, Belgium
Political partySocialist Party
OccupationPolitician

Hugues Bayet is a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party.[1] He is a former Member of the European Parliament and the mayor of Farciennes.

Since the 2014 European elections, Bayet has been a Member of the European Parliament, representing the Belgian French-speaking electoral college. He has since been serving on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. From 2015 until 2016, he was a member of the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect (TAXE). In 2016, he joined the Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) that investigated the Panama Papers revelations and tax avoidance schemes more broadly.

Bayet was elected to the Belgian Federal Parliament in the 2024 Belgian federal election.

References

  1. ^ "Hugues BAYET - Curriculum vitae - MEPs - European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu.