French Whistleblowers - Ric Besson, Arnaud Montebourg, Vincent Peillon, Harlem D Sir (Paperback)

Chapters: ric Besson, Arnaud Montebourg, Vincent Peillon, Harlem D sir. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: ric Besson (born 2 April 1958 in Marrakech) is a French politician, presently Minister of Immigration, Integration, National identity and Solidary development in the government of Fran ois Fillon. Born in Morocco, Besson's mother is from Lebanon and his father was a flight instructor in the French Air Force, killed in flight three months before ric's birth. At 17, he settled with his family at Mont limar, France and studied in the cole sup rieure de commerce of Montpellier, then in the Institut d' tudes politiques de Paris. Besson joined the French car company, Renault, then worked for Challenges, a business monthly, before joining the Vivendi foundation. He was a member of the Socialist Party from 1993 to 2007. He has been mayor of Donz re since 1995 and was the d put for the Dr me between 1997 to 2007 (he did not stand for re-election in 2007). He began the 2007 French presidential election as a member of S gol ne Royal's campaign team, but defected in a blaze of publicity, proclaiming that he felt the Socialist campaign's economic policy to be deeply flawed. He then joined Nicolas Sarkozy's first government. In May 2007 he become State Secretary for "Prospectives and Evaluation of Public Policies" and in January 2009, he became Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Cooperative Development in the government of Prime Minister Fran ois Fillon. In 2007 he launched a new political party "Les Progressistes" which has joined the Union for a Popular Movement, Nicolas Sarkozy's party. As successor to Brice Hortefeux in charge of immigration and national identity he has announced the objective (March 2009) of ensuring 2...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=11287179