Michel Rocard

Michel Rocard AC OQ was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991 during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion, a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and achieved the Matignon Accords regarding the status of New Caledonia. He was a member of the European Parliament, and was strongly involved in European policies until 2009. In 2007, he joined a Commission under the authority of Nicolas Sarkozy's Minister of Education, Xavier Darcos.