Marielle Gallo

Marielle Gallo (born 19 May 1949 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency.

Gallo in 2014

She is the wife of famous French historian and member of the French Academy, Max Gallo. She ran in a Parisian constituency in the 1993 election under the colours of the Citizens' Movement. In 2007, she joined the Modern Left, allied to President Nicolas Sarkozy. She became the party's spokesperson.

European Parliament career

In the 2009 European elections, she was the fourth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the Île-de-France region, and was elected to the European Parliament, where she sits with the Group of the European People's Party. In 2012 she emerged as a proponent of intellectual property rights and online copyright protection.[1]

gollark: Yes, trivially, via encoding of bytes into unary.
gollark: Yes, you said.
gollark: I could buy very moderately good GPUs for that much money.
gollark: Apparently it's something like £700.
gollark: If I was a pizza salesman - which I am not - then in order to move around bulk pizzas.

References
  1. Rules also exist online. Copyright should be enforced in a proportionate and effective way because it is a source of innovation and job creation in the EU declared Gallo in her statement of 16.02.2012


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