Vincent Chauvet

Vincent Chauvet
Vincent Chauvet in 2014
Personal details
Born	(1987-10-24) 24 October 1987
Political party	Democratic Movement
Alma mater	Sorbonne, SciencesPo, HEC

Vincent Chauvet, born in 1987, is a French activist and founder of the first European Citizens' Initiative.

Education and early career

Vincent Chauvet was first educated in Dijon.^[1] After attending preparatory classes at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he graduated from HEC Paris and Sciences Po in 2011. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History from the Paris-Sorbonne University.^[2]

He worked as a reporter to the editorial board of La Tribune in Paris and Reuters in Brussels and hosted political talk shows on the Christian radio Fréquence protestante. He also interned in Chief of Staff of the French Army administration and in the Ministry of Budget.^[3]

After working in Brussels as a political communication advisor, Vincent Chauvet was recruited in 2013 by New York University School of Law to run the joint EU Regulatory Policy Legal Clinic with HEC Paris^[4] and to help launch the first Massive open online course of a French business school,^[5] focusing on European affairs and citizens' empowerment.

Civic activism

Public interest litigation

In 2010, he sued the French Prime minister for failing to enact anonymous CV legislation and brought the case before the Constitutional Council of France under the newly established ex post judicial review,^[6] arguing that the doctrine of standing in French administrative law was unconstitutional and pleading in favor of the introduction of public-interest litigation.^[7] On July 9, 2014,^[8] the Conseil d'Etat gave reason to Chauvet's claim^[9] that the French government had a constitutional obligation to execute the legislation.^[10]

Foreign students' rights

In 2011, Vincent Chauvet headed the student protest movement^[11] against a new policy enforced by Interior Minister Claude Guéant to massively reject work visa applications for foreign students forcing them to leave France after graduation.^[12] This movement led to a softening of work-visa restrictions measures in 2012.^[13]

European Citizens' Initiative

In April 2012, Vincent Chauvet founded the first ever submitted but only second registered European Citizens' Initiative^[14] One Single Tariff. The initiative supported the immediate end off all roaming fees and the creation of a unified digital market in the European Union.^[15] The signature gathering campaign^[16] led the European Parliament to back the proposal ahead of the European 2014 elections. ^[17]

Political career

As youth branch leader of the Union for French Democracy Vincent Chauvet stood on the centrist ballot for the 2010 regional elections.^[18]

For the presidential elections of 2012, Vincent Chauvet was part of the team of economic advisors to the Democratic candidate François Bayrou , proposing pooling European sovereign debts and passing a rule precluding unbalanced budgets.^[19] In the run-off he took sides against Nicolas Sarkozy warning in an op-ed in Libération with Dan Franck, Françoise Héritier, Jean de Kervasdoué and Michel Broué against growing popular support for Marine Le Pen.^[20]

In late 2012, he was picked by the business magazine L'Expansion as the most promising centrist politician in Burgundy.^[21] He teamed up with the incumbent independent candidate for the 2014 mayoral race in Autun^[22] and won with 51.93%.^[23] He is since 2014 Municipal councillor of Autun and Councillor of Greater Autun - Morvan Communauté de communes.

References

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