EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU commissioners, impressive justice campaigners or just young and splashy, they are the famous women who scored big in the European elections. She always wears Dior and has made a name for herself as France's first justice minister with an immigrant background. Rachida Dati, the 43-year old single mother who went back to work five days after giving birth to her daughter, secured a safe victory for Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The party scored 27.8 percent of the votes, eleven percentage points ahead of the rival Socialist party. Meglena Kuneva has won her seat as a MEP but could be sent again as EU commissioner. A big winner in the French elections was also the Green Eva Joly, second on the Europe Ecologie list after Daniel Cohn-Bendit. A Norwegian-French magistrate specialised in financial affairs, the 65-year old Ms Joly played a key role in exposing high-level corruption in the French state-owned oil giant, Elf Aquitaine. Ms Joly said she hoped to gain a majority in the new EU legislature to seriously combat fiscal paradises and for "more justice between the North and the South." Earlier this year she was employed by the Icelandic government to investigate the possibility of fraud and embezzlement in the financial crisis which paralysed the country since 2008.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU commissioners, impressive justice campaigners or just young and splashy, they are the famous women who scored big in the European elections.
She always wears Dior and has made a name for herself as France's first justice minister with an immigrant background. Rachida Dati, the 43-year old single mother who went back to work five days after giving birth to her daughter, secured a safe victory for Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The party scored 27.8 percent of the votes, eleven percentage points ahead of the rival Socialist party.
Meglena Kuneva has won her seat as a MEP but could be sent again as EU commissioner.
A big winner in the French elections was also the Green Eva Joly, second on the Europe Ecologie list after Daniel Cohn-Bendit. A Norwegian-French magistrate specialised in financial affairs, the 65-year old Ms Joly played a key role in exposing high-level corruption in the French state-owned oil giant, Elf Aquitaine. Ms Joly said she hoped to gain a majority in the new EU legislature to seriously combat fiscal paradises and for "more justice between the North and the South."
Earlier this year she was employed by the Icelandic government to investigate the possibility of fraud and embezzlement in the financial crisis which paralysed the country since 2008.
She always wears Dior
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