Stéphanie Yon-Courtin Explained

Constituency Mp:France
Term Start:2 July 2019[1] [2]
Parliament:European
Office2:Member of the Regional Council of Normandy
Term Start2:2 July 2021
President2:Hervé Morin
Office3:Member of the Departmental council of Calvados
Term Start3:2 April 2015
Term End3:1 July 2021
President3:Jean-Léonce Dupont
Office4:Mayor of Saint-Contest
Term Start4:4 April 2014
Term End4:28 June 2019
Predecessor4:Denis Desynder
Successor4:Jean-Marc Philippe
Birth Date:28 March 1974
Birth Place:Coutances, France
Alma Mater:University of Caen Normandy
University of Bristol
Profession:Lawyer

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (born 28 March 1974) is a French lawyer and politician of Renaissance who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.[3]

Early career

In the late 1990s, Yon-Courtin spent nearly two years working at the European Commission.[4] before moving to law firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy. She later worked as advisor to France's Competition Authority from 2007 until 2010.[5]

Political career

Ahead of the 2017 French legislative election, Yon-Courtin ran for the Republicans' nomination in Calvados.[6]

Since entering the European Parliament, Yon-Courtin has been serving on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, she is the parliament's rapporteur on competition law[7] [8] [9] and the 2021 Digital Markets Act.[10]

In addition to her committee assignments, Yon-Courtin chairs the Parliament's delegation for relations with Canada.[11] [12] She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital,[13] the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights,[14] the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,[15] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas[16] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.[17]

Yon-Courtin was re-elected as an MEP in 2024.[18]

Political positions

In a 2022 letter to European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, Yon-Courtin – together with Pierre Karleskind and Nathalie Loiseau – urged the EU to take measures to end British water treatment facilities’ discharges of raw sewage into shared waters, part of what they argued was an unacceptable lowering of environmental standards since Brexit.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Key dates ahead. European Parliament . 28 May 2019 . en . 20 May 2017.
  2. Web site: Key dates ahead. BBC News . 28 May 2019 . en . 22 May 2017.
  3. Web site: Parlement européen. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France ?. Cazenave. Fabien. 2019-05-27. Ouest-France.fr. fr. 2020-03-04.
  4. Rym Momtaz, Maïa de La Baume, Laura Kayali, Sarah Anne Aarup, Louise Guillot, Paola Tamma, Simon Van Dorpe and Hans von der Burchard (31 December 2021), The French people Europe needs to know Politico Europe.
  5. Elodie Dardenne (29 March 2019), Stéphanie Yon-Courtin veut être « utile » à l’Europe et « connectée » à son territoire Ouest-France.
  6. Jean-Baptiste Marie (27 March 2019), Élections européennes : Qui est Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, l'élue calvadosienne sur la liste LREM ? France Bleu.
  7. Derek Perrotte (9 December 2019), Concurrence : l'ouverture de Vestager Les Échos.
  8. Céline Schoen (21 January 2020), L’Europe s’interroge sur sa politique de concurrence La Croix.
  9. Javier Espinoza (15 December 2020), EU warns that it may break up Big Tech companies Financial Times.
  10. https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/movers-and-shakers-21-may-2021 Movers & Shakers
  11. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197581/STEPHANIE_YON-COURTIN/home Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
  12. Web site: Welcome from the Chair . Delegations European Parliament . Stéphanie . Yon-Courtin . 7 August 2022 .
  13. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-artificial-intelligence-and-digital.pdf Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital
  14. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-childrens-rights.pdf Intergroup on Children’s Rights
  15. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-climate-change-biodiversity-and-sustainable-development.pdf Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development
  16. http://www.searica.eu/intergroup/members-2019-2024 Members 2019-2024
  17. https://www.europeancancerleagues.org/meps-against-cancer-mac-meps/ MAC MEPs in the 2019-24 legislature
  18. Web site: Européennes 2024 : qui sont les 81 députés français élus au Parlement ? . Le Monde.fr . 3 July 2024 . fr . 10 June 2024.
  19. Philip Blenkinsop (26 August 26, 2022), The scum also rises - French lawmakers urge crackdown on UK sea sewage Reuters.