Background
BLOT, Yvan Michel was born on June 29, 1948 in Saint-Mandé, France. Parents: the late Camille Blot and Adéla Sophia Blot (née Brys).
Member of the European Parliament
BLOT, Yvan Michel was born on June 29, 1948 in Saint-Mandé, France. Parents: the late Camille Blot and Adéla Sophia Blot (née Brys).
Henry IV College; honours graduate from Paris faculty of law and economics. Paris Political Institute, and National Administration School. Spoken languages: English, German, Dutch, Italian.
A former Gaullist parliamentarian (for Rally for the Republic), Blot also served as a leading civil servant under both Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski and Alain Devaquet. He joined the Front National in 1989 and was elected to the European Parliament for them in the 1989 election. A prominent Eurosceptic he played a leading role in establishing a committee to support the Bruges Group in France.
He has also written for Nation Europa magazine.
The mission statement of this association is to change the French constitution on the Swiss model. He retired from the French administration in July 2013 and is now professor in direct democracy at the university of Nice, at the catholic university of Rennes and in the university of Velikie Novgorod (Russia).
He is consultant by the radio station "Voice of Russia" in Paris. He is author of numerous essays in politics and philosophy, for instance "l"oligarchie au pouvoir" and "la démocratie directe une chance pour la France" (economica publisher Paris) or "les faux prophètes" and "nous les enfants d"Athéna" (Apopsix publisher, Paris). his last books are " l"homme défiguré", 2015 and " la Russie de Poutine", 2015.
Catholic
He also played a leading role in FN policy making, joining other Club de l"Horloge alumni such as Bruno Mégret and Jean-Yves Le Gallou in driving the party away from corporatism and towards neo-liberal economics.
He is now member of the Universiti Malaysia Pahang. He is member of the Catholic Academy of France. He works for the think tank Idexia with Charles Beigbeder and Guillaume Peltier, think tank in favour of the return of the former président Nicolas Sarkozy to power.he is member of the " Academie catholique de France".
Spouse the late Bernadette Boyer, 1978, (deed. 1990), 1979; children: Delphine, Franck.
