Pierre Moscovici

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Pierre Moscovici (born September 16, 1957) is a French politician, a member of the Departmental Council of Doubs and a Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. He is a member of the French Socialist Party (PS); part of the Party of European Socialists. He has been National Secretary of his party since 1995.

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Born in Paris, he is the son of the influential Romanian-Jewish social psychologist Serge Moscovici and of the psychoanalyst Marie Bromberg-Moscovici. Pierre Moscovici obtained a DEA in economics, one in philosophy, and graduated the École nationale d'administration (where he studied under Dominique Strauss-Kahn). He was also a president of À gauche en Europe, a group founded by Strauss-Kahn and Michel Rocard.

Initially active in the Revolutionary Communist League, he left in 1984 to join the PS, and, in 1986, became secretary of the "experts' group" created by Claude Allègre.

From 1997 to 2002 he was Minister for European Affairs in the government of Lionel Jospin. On 20 July 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. Re-elected on 17 January 2007.