Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield

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Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield
Member of the European Parliament
for France
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
Born (1977-03-08) 8 March 1977 (age 47)
Solihull, England
NationalityFrench
Children4
Alma materGrenoble 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[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ^ Cazenave, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Élections européennes. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France". Ouest France (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  4. ^ Greens/EFA group positions elected Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA), press release of 12 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  6. ^ Members of the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union Archived 12 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament, press release of July 9, 2020.
  7. ^ Democracy, Rule of Law & Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group, 2019–2024 European Parliament.
  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. ^ Members of the delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe European Parliament.
  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. ^ Board & Members Spinelli Group.
  13. ^ Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty European Parliament.
  14. ^ Members European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights.
  15. ^ CEPS-SWP High-Level Group on bolstering EU Democracy Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), press release of 1 May 2023.