Bernard Guetta
 Bernard Guetta      (journalist) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 28 January 1951 Boulogne-Billancourt, France | |||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||
| Ethnicity | Jewish | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | lycée Henri-IV | |||||||||||
| Parents | • Pierre Guetta • Francine Bourla | |||||||||||
| Siblings | • Nathalie Guetta • David Guetta | |||||||||||
| Member of | Bosphorus Institute, French-American Foundation/Young Leaders/1981, French-American Foundation/Young Leaders/1984 | |||||||||||
| Relatives | Charles Guetta | |||||||||||
French journalist
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Bernard Guetta is a French corporate journalist and politician, specialist in internationalgeopolitics. He was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2019.
He was selected a Young Leader by the transatlantic French-American Foundation in 1981.
Background
Bernard Guetta was born and raised in a family of Sephardic Jews. Her father is Pierre Guetta, of Moroccan origin, a sociologist specializing in the world of work who later became a restaurateur, while his mother is Francine née Bourla (1928-2011), who owned a tribal art gallery[1]. His parents separate when he entered the 6th grade. He is the brother of the actress Nathalie Guetta and the half-brother by his father of David Guetta, a world-renowned disc jockey.[2]
With parents who passed through Trotskyism, anti-colonialism and the Unified Socialist Party (PSU), he grew up in a very politicized environment, anchored in an the anticommunist left.
At the age of fifteen, he joined the Human Rights League, where Daniel Mayer directed him to the monthly Après demain.. In charge of its distribution to the booksellers of Paris, he thus participates in the meetings of the editorial board alongside Françoise Seligmann, Pierre Joxe and Philippe Bernard. In this radical-socialist milieu, he met personalities such as [Claude Nicolet]] or Pierre Mendès France (of whom he was for a time adviser on school affairs[2]).
Brought to live in Casablanca (French Morocco), he studied at the Lycée Lyautey for almost two years while living with grandparents who, during the Second World War, had welcomed their cousin Charles Guetta and his friend Jean Daniel for several months. Back in Paris, he finds his friends Emmanuel Todd and Jean-Pierre Cerquant (respectively son and brother-in-law of Olivier Todd).
In 1967, he participated in the operation "One billion for Vietnam", launched by his father for the reconstruction of the country.[3] Education
May 68
But it was with his entry into the Lycée Henri-IV, in Paris, where he was preparing for the baccalaureate, and the events of May 68, that he began to take political leadership.
An organizer of the occupation of Henri-IV and Fénelon high schools, he became one of the leaders of the high school action committees[2] alongside Michel Recanati, Maurice Najman and Romain Goupil. Perceiving himself then as an "American-style radical" who aimed less at seizing power than at imposing the necessary reforms, he provoked debates at Henri-IV between students and teachers on the reform of education,. He joined the Revolutionary Communist Youth in October 1968 under the influence of Michel Recanati. From the beginning of 1970, he stopped participating in the meetings of the League even if he kept contacts with some of its leaders such as Henri Weber.
Career
His links with Olivier Todd facilitate his entry as an intern at the Nouvel Observateur. His entry coincides with that of his father's cousin (Charles Guetta) on the board of directors. This led to him being frowned upon by the rest of the editorial staff until the death of Charles Guetta (summer 1972) improved his image. His presence at the magazine was strengthened by his participation in the coverage of the presidential campaign of April 1974 and the Socialist Conference (October 1974). But he continues to be interested in leftist themes: the situation in prisons, in the army and the police, the excesses of Justice, the control of information.
He continues to pay attention to the internal protest in the French Communist Party, in particular within the Communist Youth, of which he interviews the secretary general several times; this is linked to the growing interest he takes in the questions of Soviet dissidents, supported in this by Jean Daniel and by K.S. Karol.
He was selected a Young Leader by the transatlantic French-American Foundation in 1981.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1998 | 14 May 1998 | 17 May 1998 | Scotland Turnberry | The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington |
| Brussels Forum/2008 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. | ||
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | Switzerland | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
References
- ↑ Jacques Lafitte et Stephen Taylor, Qui est qui en France, Jacques Lafitte, 2008, p. 1070.
- ↑ a b c Jacqueline Rémy, « Le jour & la night », Vanity Fair n° 46, mai 2017, pages 100-105.
- ↑ Dominique Venner, « Guide de la contestation [Archivehttps://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.fr%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3TyxDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT138%26lpg%3DPT138%26dq%3Dun%2Bmilliard%2Bpour%2Ble%2Bvietnam%2Bguetta%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3D8UUf3XEbKH%26sig%3DACfU3U2nuBN95fM4f0_-Pvr5X3YHzodIsw%26hl%3Dfr%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjxw-7I6N_mAhUNnhQKHRchDZAQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ%23v%3Donepage%26q%3Dun%2520milliard%2520pour%2520le%2520vietnam%2520guetta%26f%3Dfalse]
