Bernard Fournier

French politician

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Bernard Fournier]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Bernard Fournier}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Bernard Fournier
Bernard Fournier in 2005

Member of the French Senate for Loire
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 November 1997

Personal details
Born	(1946-09-13) 13 September 1946 (age 77) Saint-Étienne, France
Political party	UMP The Republicans

Bernard Fournier (born 13 September 1946) is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Loire department and is a member of The Republicans Party.

Political career

In the Senate, Fournier is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces. He also chairs the French-Romanian Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In addition to his work in Parliament, Fournier has been serving as member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2008. In this capacity, he is a member of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons; the Sub-Committee on Co-operation with non European countries of origin and transit; and the Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People.