{"id":1678,"date":"2020-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:16:03","slug":"henri-weber-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Henri Weber, politician"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henri Weber a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France \u2013 died on 26 April 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in France. He was 75. \r<\/p>

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He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education.\r<\/p>

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Weber was born in Leninabad (now Khujand), Tajikistan, Soviet Union, from Jewish parents. His father was a watchmaker. Henri Weber was an activist in the May 1968 uprising and was a leading member of the Trotskyist Jeunesse communiste r\u00e9volutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS.\r<\/p>

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He was also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU\u2013Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan.\r<\/p>

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