Jean Arthuis
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Jean Arthuis MEP |
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| Chair of the European Parliament Budget Committee | |
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Assumed office 7 July 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Alain Lamassoure |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Constituency | West France |
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Assumed office 26 September 1995 |
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| Constituency | Morbihan |
| French Minister of the Economy | |
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In office 12 April 1995 – 22 March 1997 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Alain Juppé |
| Preceded by | Alain Madelin |
| Succeeded by | Dominique Strauss-Kahn |
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Jean Arthuis 7 October 1944 Saint-Martin-du-Bois, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party |
 French:Centrist Alliance  EUALDE |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | www |
Jean Arthuis (born 7 October 1944 in Saint-Martin-du-Bois, Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament from France, he also serves as Senator representing Morbihan in the French Parliament. He has held various ministerial positions, especially regarding finances, and is now head of the Committee on Budgets in the European parliament.
He is the President of the Centrist Alliance political party and is a member of the ALDE group in the European Parliament.
Arthuis was born in 1944 in the Loire region of north-west France, where his parents ran a poultry business. He went to school in Château-Gontier, to which he returned after studying at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Nantes and Sciences Po in Paris. In 1971 he set up an accountancy business in the town.
When Jacques Chirac became president in 1995, Arthuis returned to government under prime minister Alain Juppé. Initially in charge of economic planning, he was later promoted to finance minister, succeeding Alain Madelin. He represented France in negotiating the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact, including crucial agreements at the Dublin summit in 1996.
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