Kader Arif

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Kader Arif (2013)

Kader Arif (Arabic: قادر عريف‎‎; born 3 July 1959 in Algiers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. A member of the French Socialist Party, which is affiliated to the Party of European Socialists, he sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the delegations to the EU–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. Recently, he signed the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group for a federal Europe.

In January 2012 he resigned as the European Parliament's rapporteur of the ACTA agreement in protest to the ACTA agreement.^[1]

On 16 May 2012 he was appointed Junior Minister for Veterans at the French Ministry of Defence by President François Hollande.

On 21 November 2014 he resigned due to suspicion on fraud and opening of judicial inquiry.^[2]^[3]

Career

Master's degree in communications
Special adviser to Lionel Jospin (1988–1992)
Chargé d'affaires (1992–1995)
Regional director of a tour operator (1995–1999)
University manager (1999–2001)
First federal secretary, Haute-Garonne Socialist Party (1999–2008)
Member of the Socialist Party national bureau (since 2000)
Socialist Party national secretary, with responsibility for globalisation
Member of Castanet-Tolosan Municipal Council, with responsibility for sport (1995–2001)
Junior Minister for Veterans in the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault (2012)