Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield Explained

Constituency Mp:France
Term Start:2 July 2019[1] [2]
Term End:15 July 2024
Parliament:European
Birth Date:8 March 1977
Birth Place:Solihull, England
Nationality:French
Children:4
Alma Mater:Grenoble Institute of Political Studies

Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (born 8 March 1977 in Solihull) is a French politician from the ecologist party Europe Ecologie Les Verts, who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.[3]

Political career

In parliament, Delbos-Corfield has since been serving as deputy chairwoman of the Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group, under the leadership of co-chairs Philippe Lamberts (since 2019), Ska Keller (2019–2022) and Terry Reintke (since 2022).[4]

From 2019 until 2020, Delbos-Corfield also served as vice-chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.[5] In 2020, she joined the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union.[6] She is also member of the Democracy, Rule of Law & Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group[7] and the rapporteur on the rule of law in Hungary.[8] [9]

Since 2021, Delbos-Corfield has been part of the Parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe.[10] Also since 2021, she has been part of the Parliament's delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Assembly, which provides parliamentary oversight over the implementation of the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.[11]

In addition to her committee assignments, Delbos-Corfield is a member of the Spinelli Group,[12] the European Parliament Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty[13] and the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.[14]

Since 2023, Delbos-Corfield has been part of the Centre for European Policy Studies/Heinrich Böll Foundation High-Level Group on Bolstering EU Democracy, chaired by Kalypso Nicolaïdis.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Key dates ahead . European Parliament . 28 May 2019 . 20 May 2017 . 13 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210813101018/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/elections-press-kit/0/key-dates-ahead . dead .
  2. Web site: Key dates ahead. BBC News . 28 May 2019 . 22 May 2017.
  3. News: Élections européennes. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France. Cazenave. Fabien. 27 May 2019. Ouest France. 5 June 2019. fr.
  4. https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/press/greens-efa-group-positions-elected/ Greens/EFA group positions elected
  5. Web site: Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield. European Parliament. 11 July 2019.
  6. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/doc/news/flash/24221/Full%20Members%20new%20committees_09-07-2020_en.pdf Members of the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union
  7. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/214942/LIBE%20DFRMG%20-%20Members.pdf Democracy, Rule of Law & Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group, 2019–2024
  8. Madeline Roache (30 March 2020), Hungary’s PM Orban gets sweeping powers to tackle coronavirus Al Jazeera.
  9. Lorna Hutchinson (3 March 2021), Fidesz resigns from EPP Group after overwhelming vote in favour of new rules The Parliament Magazine.
  10. https://conference-delegation.europarl.europa.eu/en/members.html Members of the delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe
  11. Hans von der Burchard and Maïa de La Baume (October 5, 2021), European Parliament approves new joint EU-UK Brexit assembly Politico Europe.
  12. https://thespinelligroup.eu/board-members/ Board & Members
  13. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-fighting-against-poverty.pdf Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty
  14. https://lgbti-ep.eu/who-we-are/members/ Members
  15. https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-task-forces/ceps-swp-high-level-group-on-eu-democracy/ CEPS-SWP High-Level Group on bolstering EU Democracy