Laurent Fabius

Laurent Fabius is a French statesman, formerly serving as President of the Constitutional Council.

Laurent Fabius is a French stateman, who served as President of the Constitutional Council from February 2016 to March 2025. He joined the French Socialist Party in 1974 and became deputy mayor of Grand-Quevilly in 1977. He served as a member of parliament for the Seine-Maritime region and then became chief of staff to French President François Mitterrand in 1979. He first became a member of the government as Deputy Minister for the Budget. He became Prime Minister in 1984, the youngest in the history of the Fifth Republic, being only 37 years old at the time. 

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Laurent Fabius joined the French Socialist Party in 1974 and became deputy mayor of Grand-Quevilly in 1977. He served as a member of parliament for the Seine-Maritime region and then became chief of staff to French President François Mitterrand in 1979. He first became a member of the government as Deputy Minister for the Budget. He became Prime Minister in 1984, the youngest in the history of the Fifth Republic, being only 37 years old at the time. 

Laurent Fabius went on to become the first secretary of the Socialist Party, president of the Socialist group in the National Assembly, and President of the National Assembly. 

He was Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry between 2000 and 2002 and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development between 2012 and 2016.

 He was appointed President of the Constitutional Council by François Hollande from February 2016 to March 2025. He was awarded the Legion of Honor in 2017. 

He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Sciences Po Paris and the ENA. 

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Laurent Fabius, Jorge E. Viñuales, Marko Bošnjak, Jim Skea, Christophe Soulard, Fatih Birol, Dale Jamieson, Didier Tabuteau, Teresa Ribera, Daniel C. Esty, Ginevra Le Moli, André Anranha Corrêa do Lago, Damilola S. Olawuyi, Liu Zhenmin, Anne Hidalgo, Yann Aguila, Laurent Neyret, Baptiste Morizot, Volker Türk, Rémy Heitz, Jean-François Mercure, Sebastian Valdecantos-Halporn, Étienne Espagne, Luis Vassy, Ariane Joab-Cornu, Béatrice Parance, Anne Stévignon, Emanuela Fronza, Adán Nieto, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Pedro Sánchez, Cyril Ramaphosa, Alexandria C. Miskho, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Climate Change: The Critical Decade

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Laurent Fabius

Foreword

Ten years since the Paris Agreement. Like any anniversary, this is an opportunity to take stock of the protection of what is undoubtedly the most significant existential challenge of this century—the climate and the environment—and to consider future prospects. Assessing the current situation and outlining goals for climate and environmental protection ten years after the … Continued

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Laurent Fabius

Why COPs are Essential to Tackle the Climate Emergency

In 2015 and the following months, the Paris Agreement and the COP 21 that made it possible were the subject of widespread public support and a real movement of hope. As the Agreement was adopted, the acronym “COP”, which in international law is the generic term for the “Conference Of Partie”, bringing together all the … Continued

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Stéphanie Monjon, Léa Boudinet, Clémence Pèlegrin, Hugo Sancho, Amélie Latreille, Laurent Fabius, Amy Dahan, Thibaud Voïta, Jean-Paul Maréchal, Michel Aglietta, Pierre Charbonnier, Adam Tooze, Enrico Letta, Laurence Tubiana, Jason Bordoff, Alex N. Halliday, David Levaï, Philip Andrews-Speed, Jean-François Di Meglio, Michal Meidan, Anders Hove, Eric Armando, Han Chen, Cecilia Springer, Hugo Marciot, Yifei Li, Judith Shapiro, Andrée Clément, Federico Cugurullo, Élodie René, Matthieu Glachant, Simon Touboul, Anaïs Voy-Gillis, Susanne Dröge

China’s Ecological Power: Analysis, Critiques, and Perspectives

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