Christine de Veyrac is a French politician

Politics of France

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 and Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 for the south-west of France

France

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. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement

Union for a Popular Movement

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, which is part of the European People's Party

European People's Party

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, and sits on the European Parliament

European Parliament

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's Committee on Transport and Tourism.

She is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council

Palestinian Legislative Council

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 and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Israel

Israel

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.

She used to be the parliamentary attaché of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981...

.

Career

• Master's degree in international public law
  Law
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   (Toulouse, 1983)
• National Secretary of the UMP
  Union for a Popular Movement
  The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...
  
   (since 2003)
• Deputy Mayor of Toulouse with responsibility for international and European relations (since 2001)
• Member of the bureau of the Greater Toulouse Urban Area Community Council
• Secretary of the Town Planning and Aviation and Space Development Committee,
• Member of the European Parliament
  European Parliament
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   (since 1999)

External links

• European Parliament biography
• Declaration of financial interests (in French; PDF
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