Michèle Rivasi
Michèle Rivasi | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 14 July 2009 – 29 November 2023 | |
Succeeded by | François Thiollet |
Constituency | South East France |
Member of the National Assembly for Drôme's 1st constituency | |
In office 12 June 1997 – 18 June 2002 | |
Preceded by | Patrick Labaune |
Succeeded by | Patrick Labaune |
Personal details | |
Born | Europe Écologie–The Greens (from 2009) | 9 February 1953
Other political affiliations |
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Alma mater | ENS Fontenay-aux-Roses |
Michèle Rivasi (9 February 1953 – 29 November 2023) was a French politician who served as a
Early life
Born on 9 February 1953, in Montélimar, Drôme, in southeastern France.[1][2] She was an alumna of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses and taught biology[3] at Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres[1][2] before entering politics.
Political career
Career in national politics
In 1986 Rivasi founded the Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity following the Chernobyl disaster.[4]
From
From September 2003 to November 2004, Rivasi was the director of Greenpeace in France.[6]
Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2023
In 2009,
In parliament, Rivasi served on the
Following the 2019 elections, Rivasi was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's four-year work program on digitization.[14]
In addition to her committee assignments, Rivasi was also part of the Parliament's delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly beginning in 2009.[9] She was also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals[15]
Ahead of the 2017 French presidential election, Rivasi ran for her party's nomination for the presidency but eventually lost in the final round of the primaries against Yannick Jadot.[16][17]
In February 2019, Rivasi was one of four Green MEPs (the others being Molly Scott Cato, Tilly Metz, and Thomas Waitz) who were temporarily arrested after breaking into the Kleine Brogel Air Base to protest against the presence of U.S. B61 nuclear bombs on European soil; the protest followed the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty earlier that month.[18]
Political positions
Rivasi described herself as "vaccination skeptic".[19] She sparked controversy in July 2021 after comparing the extension of the health pass obligation announced by President Macron with apartheid and many left-wing officials, including from the Greens, expressed their indignation and criticised her.[20] On two occasions in 2021, she made a communication to the so-called ″conseil scientifique indépendant″ (Independent scientific council) of the highly controversial RéinfoCovid website that propagates COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.[21]
Rivasi was a strong supporter of alternative medicine and homeopathy.[22] She opposed the planned Midi-Catalonia (Midcat) pipeline that would more than double the amount of gas that can be piped across the Pyrenees mountains that border Spain and France.[23]
Death
Rivasi died from a heart attack in Brussels on 29 November 2023, at age 70, while on the way to the Parliament.[24]
References
- ^ a b "Your MEPs : Michèle RIVASI". Europa. European Parliament. Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d Michèle Rivasi Archived 11 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine National Assembly.
- ^ Carmen Paun (15 January 2018), Europe's green brawler Archived 3 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine Politico Europe
- ^ "Décès de Michèle Rivasi". Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (in French). 29 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ "Michèle Rivasi". Ecolopedia (in French). 22 August 2016. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- L'Obs (in French). Archivedfrom the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ "Valence : Michèle Rivasi soutient "Avec" mais ne figurera pas sur la liste". Le Dauphiné libéré (in French). Drôme. 29 January 2020. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ "Michèle Rivasi". European Parliament. 9 February 1953. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ a b Michèle Rivasi Archived 5 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament.
- European Voice.
- European Voice.
- ^ Members of the Special Committee on Beating Cancer Archived 12 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament, press release of 9 July 2020.
- ^ Members of the delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe Archived 10 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament.
- ^ Florian Eder (13 June 2019), POLITICO Brussels Playbook, presented by Google: Madrid's moment — Parliament working groups sneak peak — Happy birthday, GDPR Archived 1 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine Politico Europe.
- ^ Members Archived 31 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.
- ^ Sébastien Tronche (7 November 2016). "Yannick Jadot élu candidat d'EELV face à Michèle Rivasi pour la présidentielle de 2017". Le Lab. Europe 1. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ Quentin Ariès (7 November 2016), French Greens pick MEP Jadot for 2017 presidential race Archived 3 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine Politico Europe.
- ^ Eline Schaart (20 February 2019), 4 Green MEPs arrested after anti-nuclear protest at Belgian military base Archived 3 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine Politico Europe.
- ^ Rivasi's blog Archived 4 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "BBC". Archived from the original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ Vincent Coquaz Libération Archived 1 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine, 27 April 2021.
- ^ Reporterre Archived 29 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine, June 2019
- ^ Geert De Clercq (17 April 2018), Exclusive: Viability of French-Spain gas pipeline questioned – report Archived 3 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine Reuters.
- ^ "Décès de Michèle Rivasi : les réactions politiques à la mort de l'eurodéputée drômoise". ici. 29 November 2023. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.