18 Facts About Arnaud Danjean

Arnaud Danjean was elected to the newly-created Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comte in 2015, holding a seat until his resignation in 2017.

Arnaud Danjean chaired the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence from 2009 to 2014, a subcommittee of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In 2024, Arnaud Danjean was appointed a special adviser to Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

Arnaud Danjean graduated in 1992 from Sciences Po with a degree in communication, research and human resource, and completed his curriculum in 1993 with a postgraduate diploma in political science and international relations at Sciences Po.

Arnaud Danjean carried out numerous missions in Sarajevo in 1995 and 1996, especially during the Siege of Sarajevo and the signature of the Dayton Agreement.

Arnaud Danjean became a permanent member of the French Embassy in Sarajevo from June 1996 to September 1998.

Arnaud Danjean later worked as a Balkans specialist for the Ministry of Defence and took part to the negotiations of the Rambouillet Agreement in February and March 1999.

Arnaud Danjean joined the Mission of France to the United Nations in Geneva in 2002, and performed in 2004 a new mission in Kosovo for Javier Solana, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy.

In 2005, Arnaud Danjean joined the staff of Minister of Foreign Affairs Michel Barnier where he was in charge of the Balkans and Afghanistan.

Arnaud Danjean remained in office from July 2005 to March 2007 under the tenure of Barnier's successor Philippe Douste-Blazy.

Arnaud Danjean spent an extended stay in the United States at the end of 2007 in the framework of a German Marshall Fund course.

Arnaud Danjean was elected as chairman of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence, a subcommittee of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Arnaud Danjean was the rapporteur for the European Parliament's 2010 resolution on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy.

Arnaud Danjean was elected a member of the Regional Council of Burgundy in 2010 and its successor, the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, in 2015.

Arnaud Danjean is widely considered an Atlanticist and proponent of NATO.

Arnaud Danjean welcomed Francois Hollande's decision to engage the French Armed Forces in response to the armed groups' offensive in Northern Mali on 11 January 2013, an action he called "inevitable, justified and legitimate" according to the circumstances and international law.

Arnaud Danjean however regretted the inertia of the European Union despite a vote on a strategy for Sahel as soon as 2011, and criticised the inability of the French Government to involve other European countries which he sees as a consequence of the precipitate withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan.

Arnaud Danjean commented in 2007 the Declaration of European Muslims of Mustafa Ceric, Rais of Bosnia and Herzegovina.