Nathalie Goulet (born 24 May 1958) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Orne department. She is a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents and sits with the political group of the Centrist Union.
She is a member of the commission of Foreign Affairs and Defense Forces.
In the Senate, she supports nuclear negotiations with Iran, as well as the cause of Palestinian and Azerbaijani refugees.
Goulet advocated for the recognition of the Armenian genocide, whilst at the same time promoting relationships with Turkey and Arab countries. She also criticizes the repression of opponents in Iran.
Biography
Family and private life
Milsztein comes from a Jewish family. Her father's family was deported during the Vel d'Hiv round-up in 1942, but her father survived.
A companion of Orne RPR senator Daniel Goulet (1928-2007), she became his parliamentary assistant in 1999, before deputising for him from September 23, 2001. She married him in 2004.
Education and professional career
After studying law, Nathalie Milsztein joined the Paris Bar.
Disbarred in January 2000 by the Paris Bar Council for serious breaches of professional ethics, a decision upheld on appeal in 2006, she lodged an appeal in cassation and was re-admitted to the Paris Bar in 2011. In December 2011, she applied for and obtained her omission.
In 2014, on her declaration of interests to the Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, she declares that she no longer has any income as a lawyer and does not engage in any ancillary activities.
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References
Page on the Senate website
1958 births
Living people
French senators of the Fifth Republic
Politicians from Boulogne-Billancourt
Politicians from Normandy
Women members of the Senate (France) Union of Democrats and Independents politicians 21st-century French women politicians Senators of Orne