Pierre Karleskind (born 19 October 1979) is a French oceanographer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.
Political career In parliament, Karleskind served on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and as member of the Committee on Fisheries. In 2020, he became the chairman of the Committee on Fisheries.
In addition to his committee assignments, Karleskind was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights,Members European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights. the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development European Parliament. the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas,Members 2019-2024 European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas. and the MEPs Against Cancer group.MAC MEPs in the 2019-24 legislature MEPs Against Cancer.
In March 2024, Karleskind was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards
Political positions Karleskind mobilised 64 MEPs to officially refer the police’s mass arrest of LGBT activists in Poland to the European Commission.Alan Charlish (20 August 2020), MEPs refer Poland to European Commission over LGBT arrests Reuters.
In a 2022 letter to European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, Karleskind – together with Stéphanie Yon-Courtin and Nathalie Loiseau – urged the EU to take measures to end British water treatment facilities’ discharges of raw sewage into shared waters, part of what they argued was an unacceptable lowering of environmental standards since Brexit.Philip Blenkinsop (26 August 26, 2022), The scum also rises - French lawmakers urge crackdown on UK sea sewage Reuters.
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