Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
MEP
Yon-Courtin in 2019
Member of the European Parliament
for France
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Member of the Regional Council of Normandy
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2021
PresidentHervé Morin
Member of the Departmental council of Calvados
In office
2 April 2015 – 1 July 2021
PresidentJean-Léonce Dupont
Mayor of Saint-Contest
In office
4 April 2014 – 28 June 2019
Preceded byDenis Desynder
Succeeded byJean-Marc Philippe
Personal details
Born (1974-03-28) 28 March 1974 (age 50)
Coutances, France
Political partyRenaissance (since 2019)
The Republicans (2015-18)
Alma materUniversity of Caen Normandy
University of Bristol
ProfessionLawyer

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]

References

  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ^ Cazenave, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Parlement européen. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France ?". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  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. ^ Movers & Shakers The Parliament Magazine, 21 May 2021.
  11. ^ Stéphanie Yon-Courtin European Parliament
  12. ^ Yon-Courtin, Stéphanie. "Welcome from the Chair". Delegations European Parliament. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  13. ^ Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital European Parliament.
  14. ^ Intergroup on Children’s Rights European Parliament.
  15. ^ Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development European Parliament.
  16. ^ Members 2019-2024 European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas.
  17. ^ MAC MEPs in the 2019-24 legislature MEPs Against Cancer.
  18. ^ "Européennes 2024 : qui sont les 81 députés français élus au Parlement ?". Le Monde.fr (in French). 10 June 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  19. ^ Philip Blenkinsop (26 August 26, 2022), The scum also rises - French lawmakers urge crackdown on UK sea sewage Reuters.