Henri Malosse

Henri Malosse
President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
In office April 2013 – October 2015
Personal details
Born	(1954-10-06) 6 October 1954 (age 69) Montpellier, France

Henri Malosse (born 6 October 1954 in Montpellier, France) is a French politician and representative of the business world. he has been the 30th President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) (April 2013 - October 2015).

Biography

Henri Malosse was born in Montpellier in a family of professors from Corsica.^[1] He graduated from the Sciences Po in 1976.^[2]

He began exploring the cultures of Germany, Eastern Europe and speaks Polish, Russian English and German.^{[citation needed]}

Henri Malosse supported strongly the freedom's movement in Poland (Solidarnosc), met Lech Walesa in 1976 in Gdansk and was banned by the polish communist regime of Jaruzelski during 8 years. He has been harassed by the secret police of the polish communist regime. His file can be found in the archivum of IPN in Warsaw. ^{[citation needed]}

He was involved in European policies for SMEs, inspiring the creation of the Euro Info Centres.^[1] He worked to create the Delegation of the Assembly of French Chambers of Commerce and Industry to the European Union, and assumed its Direction six years later.^[1] He also participated in the European Association of Small and Medium Enterprises at the European Parliament.^[1]

In 1995 he was appointed by the French government in the European Economic and Social Committee - EESC, the 5th Institution of the European Union, writing more than 50 reports including a critic of the posted workers directive. He was the chair of the pre-accession EU-Bulgaria Consultative Committee, and of the Employer's Group from 2016 to 2013 - In 2013, He was elected the 30th President of the EESC.^[3]

His presidency took attention to the European media thanks to his critical position on EU stand to Greece during the financial crisis . He signed a Protocol of cooperation with Martin Schulz, the President of the European parliament.^{[citation needed]}

He was the first EU representative to participate at Euromaidan in Kiev in December 2013^{[citation needed]} and to pay a visit to the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamsala on 10 March 2014.^[4] His political engagement raised a lot of criticism from the Chinese Communist Party and their supporters in Europe. He was also put temporarily on a blacklist by the Russian federation.^{[citation needed]}

On 15 October 2014, Henri Malosse received the National Order of the Legion of Honour by the former President of the French Republic, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, in Brussels.^[5]

Publications

• (with Frederic Fappani von Lothringen) L'Europe c'est quoi pour toi ?, Ed. Harmattan, 2019 (ISBN 9782343161280)
• (with Laure Limousin) Building Europe: The History and Future of a Europe of the People /Construction européenne-Histoires et avenir d’une Europe des peuples/ ed L’harmattan, 2012, (ISBN 9782296961074)
• (with Bruno Vever) We must save the European citizen! - A "C plan" to a citizens' Europe /Il faut sauver le citoyen européen ! - Un "plan C" pour rendre l'Europe aux citoyens/, Editions Bruylant Archived 2014-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, 2010, (ISBN 9782802728146)
• (with Pascal Fontaine) Europe from A to Z /L'Europe de A à Z/, Editions Bruylant Archived 2014-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, 2006, (ISBN 2802723227)
• (with Bernard Huchet) Unifying the Greater Europe /Unifier la Grande Europe/, preface by Jean-Pierre Raffarin, postscript by Jacques Santer, Editions Bruylant Archived 2014-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, 2001, (ISBN 2802715291)
• Europe at your doorstep: a guide to EU funding mechanisms /L'Europe à votre porte : les instruments de financement et de cooperation/, Paris : Centre français du commerce extérieur, 1991, (ISBN 2279618095)
• (with Pascal Fontaine) The European Institutions /Les institutions européennes/, Retz, 1992, (ISBN 2725614961)
• (with Édith Cresson), Europe at your doorstep: practical manual on the actions of the EEC concerning economic operators /L'Europe à votre porte : manuel pratique sur les actions de la CEE intéressant les opérateurs économiques, Paris: Centre français du commerce extérieur, 1989, (ISBN 227964004X)

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