19 Facts About Sylvie Goulard

Sylvie Goulard was reelected in the 2014 election for South-East France.

Sylvie Goulard served as a foreign affairs advisor; Goulard is a former president of the Mouvement europeen-France, the oldest pluralist association defending the European ideal.

Sylvie Goulard graduated with a law degree from the Universite Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III and studied at both Sciences Po in Paris and the Ecole nationale d'administration.

Sylvie Goulard worked in the Legal Affairs Directorate of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1989 until 1999.

Sylvie Goulard served in particular on the French team responsible for negotiating German reunification.

Sylvie Goulard's work focuses on the necessity of pursuing European integration whilst inviting increased public debate about European questions.

Sylvie Goulard was first elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2009 elections.

On 15 September 2010, Sylvie Goulard supported the new initiative Spinelli Group, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union.

In November 2016, Sylvie Goulard officially announced her candidacy for the office of President of the European Parliament; the post eventually went to Antonio Tajani.

Sylvie Goulard was only the second woman to head the ministry, which reverted to its pre-1974 name of Ministry of the Armed Forces.

Sylvie Goulard had stepped down after an inquiry over alleged misuse of payments for assistants in the European Parliament was opened on 20 June 2017.

On 17 January 2018, Sylvie Goulard was appointed Deputy Governor of the Banque de France, succeeding Denis Beau.

Sylvie Goulard is in charge of European and international topics, including preparations for G7 and G20 summits.

Sylvie Goulard has expressed support for the euro and the initiative launched by top banks to create a European Payments Initiative, with a view to promoting European sovereignty.

On 28 August 2019 President Macron nominated Sylvie Goulard to be the French Commissioner in the von der Leyen Commission and lead the newly established Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space.

The EPP group's MEPs showed strong animosity against the Sylvie Goulard's nomination, related to ongoing investigations by the European Anti-Fraud Office.

In 2004, before accession discussions were opened with Turkey, Sylvie Goulard had taken a position in the debate citing concerns about the eventual enlargement of the European Union to include Turkey by underlining the necessity of preserving the European Union's political ambitions and its capacity to act.

Sylvie Goulard called for doubts of citizens, facing a European project whose direction they do not properly understand, to be taken seriously.

Sylvie Goulard is married to Guillaume Goulard, councilor of state, and is mother of three children.