- Published: 03.07.2017.
Croatian PM offers condolences to French president on death of Simone Veil
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Monday extended his condolences to French President Emmanuel Macron on the death of Simone Veil, the Croatian government said in a press release.
"I was deeply saddened by the news of the death of Ms Simone Veil, the first elected speaker of the European Parliament, superb French and European politician and tireless women's rights advocate," Plenkovic said in his letter to Marcon, extending his sincere condolences.
Simone Veil was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valery Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
A survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who lost part of her family in the Holocaust, she served as the first president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, from 2000 to 2007, and subsequently as honorary president. She was elected to the Academie Francaise in November 2008. She was best known for pushing forward the law legalising abortion in France on 17 January 1975.
Text: Hina