{{short description|French politician and Member of the European Parliament (born 1945)}} '''Bernard Poignant''' (born 19 September 1945 in Vannes, Morbihan, Brittany) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Regional Development.
== Professional career == He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and a member of the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He is also a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Kazakhstan, EU–Kyrgyzstan and EU–Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.
==Career == * Highest postgraduate teaching qualification in history (1970) * Former Chairman of the National Federation of Socialist and Republican Elected Representatives * Mayor of Quimper (1989–2001 and 2008-2014) * Member of the French Parliament (1981–1986 and 1988–1993) * Member of the European Parliament (1999-2009) * Knight of the Legion of Honour
==External links== * [http://www.europinion.org Weblog of Bernard Poignant] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305015606/http://europinion.org/ |date=2021-03-05 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080820200123/http://www.bernard-poignant.org/ Website of Bernard Poignant] * [https://archive.today/20070314063800/http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ilg=EN&iucd=4311 European Parliament biography] * [http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6-dif/4311_29-06-2004.PDF Declaration of financial interests]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (in French; PDF file)
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