Nathalie Goulet

Nathalie Goulet
Senator for Orne
Assumed office
26 February 2007
Preceded byDaniel Goulet
Personal details
Born
Nathalie Milsztein

(1958-05-24) 24 May 1958
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Political partyUnion of Democrats and Independents
SpouseDaniel Goulet (2004–2007)
ProfessionLawyer

Nathalie Goulet (French pronunciation: [natali ɡulɛ]; née Milsztein, 24 May 1958) is a French lawyer and politician who has served as a Senator for Orne since 2007, when she succeeded her husband Daniel Goulet as his substitute following his death. She is a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) and sits with the Centrist Union group.

In the Senate, she is a member of the Committee on Finance. Goulet is active on a number of foreign policy issues, which has led to her being spied upon by Qatar,[1] as RFI noted she is a "vocal critic of Qatar for allegedly financing Islamic terrorism".[2]

Biography

Family and private life

Milsztein comes from a Jewish family. Her father's family was deported during the Vel d'Hiv round-up in 1942, but her father survived.[3]

A companion of Orne RPR senator Daniel Goulet (1928-2007), she became his parliamentary assistant in 1999,[4] before deputising for him from September 23, 2001. She married him in 2004.

Education and professional career

After studying law, Nathalie Milsztein joined the Paris Bar.

Disbarred in January 2000 by the Paris Bar Council for serious breaches of professional ethics, a decision upheld on appeal in 2006,[5] she lodged an appeal in cassation[6] and was re-admitted to the Paris Bar in 2011. In December 2011, she applied for and obtained her omission.[7]

In 2014, on her declaration of interests to the Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, she declares that she no longer has any income as a lawyer and does not engage in any ancillary activities.[8]

References

  1. ^ Jean-Loup Adénor (7 November 2022). ""C'est lié à mon travail sur l'islam radical" : la sénatrice Nathalie Goulet espionnée par le Qatar". Marianne (in French).
  2. ^ "French senator, former football boss hacked for criticising Qatar". RFI (in French). 7 November 2022.
  3. ^ Thibaut Pezerat (4 August 2014). "Après avoir relayé une campagne pro-Gaza sur Twitter, la sénatrice UDI Nathalie Goulet se défend de tout antisémitisme". lelab.europe1.fr (in French). Europe 1. Retrieved 29 June 2019. La totalité de la famille de mon père a été raflée au Vel d'Hiv, et mon père s'est miraculeusement échappé. Je ne suis pas juive honteuse mais ça ne regarde personne..
  4. ^ Jean-Michel Décugis, Christophe Labbé, Jérôme Pierrat et Olivia Recasens, « Affaire Goulet - Mort d'un sénateur », Le Point, No. 1807, 3 mai 2007.
  5. ^ "Nathalie Goulet élue sénateur de l'Orne". Ouest-France. 25 September 2011..
  6. ^ AFP (November 2007). "Le Point condamné pour avoir diffamé la veuve du sénateur Daniel Goulet" (in French). Retrieved 15 May 2022..
  7. ^ Arrêté du conseil de l'ordre du 6 décembre 2011.
  8. ^ Déclaration sur le site de la HATVP..