1. Eva Joly represented that party as a candidate for the presidency of France in the 2012 elections.
18 Facts About Eva Joly
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Eva Joly served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019.
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Eva Joly moved to Paris at 20 to work as an au pair.
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Eva Joly campaigned against corruption, in particular taking on, among others, former minister Bernard Tapie and the bank Credit Lyonnais.
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Eva Joly's best known case was that of France's leading oil company, Elf Aquitaine.
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On 10 June 2009, during an interview in Kastljos, Eva Joly criticized the Icelandic government for lack of funding and manpower for the investigation.
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Eva Joly enjoyed widespread trust of the population of Iceland for her work during the stay there.
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On 7 June 2009, Eva Joly was elected as a French member of the European Parliament on the Ile de France "Europe Ecologie" list on which she was second after Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
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Eva Joly later became vice-chairwoman of the Parliament's special committees created to investigate the Luxleaks scandal in 2015 into the Panama Papers scandal in 2016, respectively.
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Eva Joly worked in Afghanistan during July 2012 as part of an UN anti-corruption mission.
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When Eva Joly filed a lawsuit in December 2015 on behalf of the company's works council, a preliminary tax inquiry into McDonald's was opened in early 2015.
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Eva Joly accused the company of understating its earnings to avoid a legal obligation to share profits with employees.
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Eva Joly wanted to replace the Stability and Growth Pact on budget discipline with an Ecological and Social Development Pact, with financial, environmental and social targets.
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Ahead of the Green movement's primaries in 2021, Eva Joly endorsed Eric Piolle and later Yannick Jadot as the movement's candidate for the French presidential election in 2022.
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In June 2010, Eva Joly was sent a court summons by Nadine Berthelemy-Dupuis, an investigating magistrate in Paris, following a legal complaint from David Douillet, a retired sportsman and a national member of parliament from France's then-ruling Union for a Popular Movement.
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Douillet alleged that Eva Joly breached France's defamation laws when she made comments at a public meeting in September 2009 about his banking arrangements.
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In November 2011, Eva Joly was criticized for her support of the Greens' deal with the Socialist Party under which they gained safe seats in parliament, in exchange for accepting a slow-motion plan to reduce nuclear energy use to 50 percent of electricity generation by 2025.
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Eva Joly's tour included a Champs-Elysees nightspot in which Sarkozy feted his 2007 victory with millionaire friends, and the home of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, at the centre of an investigation into illegal alleged cash contributions to his 2007 campaign.