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Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

French politician


Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (born 28 March 1974) is a French lawyer and politician of Renaissance who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.[3]

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Early career

In the late 1990s, Yon-Courtin spent nearly two years working at the European Commission.[4] before moving to law firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy. She later worked as advisor to France's Competition Authority from 2007 until 2010.[5]

Political career

Ahead of the 2017 French legislative election, Yon-Courtin ran for the Republicans' nomination in Calvados.[6]

Since entering the European Parliament, Yon-Courtin has been serving on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, she is the parliament's rapporteur on competition law[7][8][9] and the 2021 Digital Markets Act.[10]

In addition to her committee assignments, Yon-Courtin chairs the Parliament's delegation for relations with Canada.[11][12] She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital,[13] the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights,[14] the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,[15] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas[16] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.[17]

Political positions

In a 2022 letter to European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, Yon-Courtin – together with Pierre Karleskind 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.[18]


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. Rym Momtaz, Maïa de La Baume, Laura Kayali, Sarah Anne Aarup, Louise Guillot, Paola Tamma, Simon Van Dorpe and Hans von der Burchard (31 December 2021), The French people Europe needs to know Politico Europe.
  5. Derek Perrotte (9 December 2019), Concurrence : l'ouverture de Vestager Les Échos.
  6. Yon-Courtin, Stéphanie. "Welcome from the Chair". Delegations European Parliament. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  7. Members 2019-2024 European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas.

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