Education
University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail.
University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail.
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 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement agreement in protest to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement agreement. 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.
He played as hooker for the French rugby union club Castres Olympique. 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)
Socialist Party national secretary, with responsibility for globalisation
Junior Minister for Veterans in the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault (2012).
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 European Union–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, the American College of Physicians-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. Member of the Socialist Party national bureau (since 2000)
Member of Castanet-Tolosan Municipal Council, with responsibility for sport (1995–2001).