Benjamin Haddad
Minister Delegate for Europe
Benjamin Haddad graduated from Sciences Po Paris and HEC and researcher in international relations, he taught international relations at Sciences Po. He worked for seven years in think tanks in Washington, notably as Director of the Atlantic Council's Europe Center from 2019 to 2022. He wrote Paradis Perdu: l'Amérique de Trump et la fin des illusions européennes (Grasset, 2019), a plea for European sovereignty and strategic autonomy in the face of new geopolitical threats and American withdrawal. Prix l'Express-BFM 2019 for best essay 2019.
Political career
He was first UMP National Secretary from 2011 to 2014.
In 2017, he was La République en marche's representative in Washington, D.C.
Elected deputy for Paris in June 2022 (14th constituency), he was member of the Foreign Affairs Commission and the European Affairs Commission and also spokesman coordinator for the National Assembly's Renaissance group.
During this first term, he was:
- Author of the draft resolution calling on France and the European Union to list the private military group Wagner as a terrorist organization.
- Rapporteur of the joint committee on the bill to prevent the dissemination of terrorist content online.
- Chairman of the commission of inquiry into the revelations of the Uber Files: uberization, lobbying and its consequences.
- Co-rapporteur of the information report L'Union européenne face au défi migratoire (The European Union and the challenge of migration).
- Chairman of the France-Ukraine Friendship Group of the French National Assembly.
- Vice-Chairman of the National Assembly's France-Poland Friendship Group- Member of the study groups on anti-Semitism, the Kurds, Eastern Christians, the Francophonie and the reception conditions for migrants and unaccompanied minors.
On July 7, 2024, in the early legislative elections, he was re-elected deputy for the 14th Paris constituency.
On September 21st of the same year, he was appointed Minister Delegate for Europe.