Jacques Barrot, French centre-right politician and former European Fee vice-president, died on 3 December on the age of 77.
An ally of Jacques Chirac when he was French president, Barrot held ministerial posts with accountability for labour, social affairs and well being below Alain Juppé within the Nineties and Raymond Barre within the Seventies. He was additionally president of the French Nationwide Meeting in 2002-04.
He was successively European commissioner for regional coverage, transport and justice between 2004 and 2010, and his achievements included a lead function within the Galileo satellite tv for pc system and the negotiations on the Single European Sky II regulation. He was made a vice-president of the fee within the first Barroso administration, and instantly confronted controversy when UKIP MEP Nigel Farage disclosed a conviction for embezzlement of occasion funds. His conviction had, nevertheless, been annulled below a French presidential amnesty. Barrot survived in workplace, and was subsequently given the justice portfolio in Barroso’s second time period.
Extra from … Jeanette Minns
