Agnès Evren

Agnès Evren
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for France
In office
2 July 2019[1][2] – 23 September 2023
Succeeded byLaurence Sailliet
Personal details
Born (1970-12-27) 27 December 1970 (age 54)
Paris, France
Political partyThe Republicans
Alma materPantheon-Sorbonne University

Agnès Evren (born 27 December 1970) is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.[3]

Political career

Career in national politics

Evren served as Valérie Pécresse’s spokesperson when she ran in the 2015 regional elections. When Pécresse became head of the Regional Council of Île-de-France, she was elected one of its vice presidents, in charge of education and culture.[4]

Member of the European Parliament, 2017–present

Evren became a member of the European Parliament in 2019. She has since has been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and on the Committee on Petitions.

In addition to her committee assignments, Evren is part of the parliament's delegations for relations to Afghanistan, Palestine and to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.[5] She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development[6] and the URBAN Intergroup.[7]

In 2018, Evren was named spokesperson for Pécresse's Soyons libres (SL) movement.[8] Later that year, she left SL again to chair the Paris chapter of LR.[9]

Since the 2020 elections, Evren has been serving as a member of the Council of Paris, representing the city's 15th arrondissement.[10] For the campaign, she received a public endorsement by Rachida Dati.[11]

Ahead of the 2022 French presidential election, LR chairman Christian Jacob appointed Evren and Gilles Platret as the party's spokespeople.[12] She subsequently served as one of the spokespersons of Pécresse's campaign team.[13]

In 2023, Evren left the European Parliament and was replaced by Laurence Sailliet.

Personal life

Evren is of Turkish origin.[14]

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). "Élections européennes. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France". Ouest France (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  4. ^ Maïa de La Baume (8 February 2022), Meet the French MEPs who shape the presidential race Politico Europe.
  5. ^ Agnès Evren European Parliament.
  6. ^ Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development European Parliament.
  7. ^ Members URBAN Intergroup.
  8. ^ Maïa de La Baume (8 February 2022), Meet the French MEPs who shape the presidential race Politico Europe.
  9. ^ Marie-Anne Gairaud (28 November 2018), Paris: Agnès Evren veut remettre la fédération LR en marche Le Parisien.
  10. ^ Nicolas Maviel (2 June 2020), Municipales à Paris: Agnès Evren et Philippe Goujon s’unissent Le Parisien.
  11. ^ Gilles Platret, le maire de Chalon-sur-Saône, nommé porte-parole LR pour la présidentielle Les Echos, 7 July 2021.
  12. ^ Gilles Platret, le maire de Chalon-sur-Saône, nommé porte-parole LR pour la présidentielle Les Echos, 7 July 2021.
  13. ^ Maïa de La Baume (8 February 2022), Meet the French MEPs who shape the presidential race Politico Europe.
  14. ^ Le Guay, Virginie (2019), Les Républicains : Agnès Evren, de la ZUP à Bruxelles, Paris Match, retrieved 28 November 2020