BORDEAUX, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 2, 2026--
FineHeart, a French clinical-stage medtech company developing FlowMaker®, a breakthrough therapy for the treatment of advanced heart failure, announces the appointment of Pierre Chauvineau as a member of its Board of Directors.
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This appointment comes at a strategic stage in FineHeart’s development, as the company simultaneously accelerates its clinical and industrial programs for FlowMaker® and prepares the next phases of its international expansion. With a recognized profile within the international medtech ecosystem, extensive cardiovascular sector expertise, and a strong track record in supporting innovative companies through structuring, acceleration, and scale-up phases, Pierre Chauvineau’s arrival further strengthens FineHeart’s experienced governance.
Jean-Luc Boulnois, Chairman of FineHeart’s Board of Directors, commented: “ We are delighted to welcome Pierre Chauvineau to our Board of Directors, which is fully committed to supporting FineHeart’s development strategy. His profile complements a highly engaged governance team dedicated to advancing FineHeart’s ambitions. His international medtech experience, deep understanding of the cardiovascular sector, and expertise in international market access challenges will be valuable assets in supporting the company’s scale-up.”
Arnaud Mascarell, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of FineHeart, added: “Pierre’s arrival marks an important step in supporting our clinical, industrial, and international ambitions. With FlowMaker® at the core of our strategy, we are developing highly differentiated proprietary technology building blocks – including transcutaneous wireless energy and data transfer, implantable electronics, intelligent physiological control, and associated digital technologies – whose potential could extend to other applications in the field of active implantable medical devices. Pierre’s experience in bringing innovative medical technologies to market will be particularly valuable for FineHeart.”
Pierre Chauvineau concluded: “I am impressed by the quality of the team, the strategic vision driven by FineHeart’s management, and the complementarity of the existing Board of Directors. FlowMaker® embodies an exceptional technological and medical ambition aimed at addressing a major clinical need that remains largely unmet. I am delighted to contribute to its success alongside the management team and the Board.”
Pierre Chauvineau’s career
With more than 35 years of experience gained within major corporations and high-growth innovative companies, Pierre’s career combines operational expertise, strategic vision, leadership, and support for innovative companies in medical technologies and value creation within highly regulated environments.
Throughout his career, Pierre has held senior executive leadership roles at Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and Cameron Health, leading large-scale international operations, including one of Boston Scientific's largest European business units, and contributing to the global launch of innovative medical technologies.
Pierre also has extensive governance experience and a strong track record in supporting rapidly growing innovative companies. He chairs several boards of directors in the medtech and digital health sectors, including Sequana Medical, and actively collaborates with executives, investors, and European innovation programs.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has moved forward with a vast overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and ink controversial deals to build detention centers abroad, in what rights groups compare to the Trump administration's aggressive immigration policies.
“The new regulation will speed up the return process and increase returns of persons who have no legal right to stay in the EU,” said Nicholas Ioannides, deputy migration minister for Cyprus, which holds the rotating presidency of the 27-nation bloc.
The deal was struck between the EU's three main institutions — the European Commission, the European Council and European Parliament — during a so-called “trilogue” Monday evening.
“Europe cannot afford another period of standstill,” said Dutch lawmaker Malik Azmani, who shepherded the regulation through the European Parliament.
“There is an urgent need for an effective return policy with higher return rates," he said, adding that only 28% of rejected asylum seekers return to their country of origin, with the majority staying put in the EU. “This situation is deeply concerning. It undermines public confidence in our common migration policies.”
Critics compared the regulation to the immigration policies of the Trump administration, which has struck a series of secretive agreements with nations around the world to deport thousands of people to countries that are not their own. The United Kingdom also planned to deport migrants to Rwanda, but the plan was bogged down in legal red tape and was dropped when a new government came to power in July 2024.
“Across the Atlantic, we see the violence and fear created by ICE’s brutal immigration enforcement," said Silvia Carter, spokesperson for the Brussels-based Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Europe should be learning from the harms of that model, not building its own version of it.”
Law enforcement officers across the bloc no longer need warrants from judges to raid private residences or public institutions like hospitals, she said. “The regulation is going to create a draconian detention and deportation machine."
The provisional agreement will now head to the EU lawmakers and governments, where approval will likely be swift.
“These new rules will ensure swifter, simpler, and more effective procedures across the European Union for returning non-EU nationals who have no right to stay, in full respect of international law and fundamental rights,” said Henna Virkkunen, EU commissioner for technology.
EU member nations will soon be able to set up bilateral deals with countries outside the bloc to build deportation centers. At least five EU nations — Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Greece — are already in talks with third countries, mostly in Africa, to host “return hubs” on the model of Italy's detention deal with Albania.
“We are delivering the member states tools in their hands to make those agreements and arrangements with third countries,” Azmani said.
Mélissa Camara, a lawmaker from the French Green party, said the deal was “a historic setback” for human rights in the bloc.
“The legalization of return hubs outside the European Union, the green light for the detention of minors, home visits inspired by ICE practices: the legal arsenal serving a xenophobic ideology is now complete,” she said.
The EU has continually tightened migration policies after right-wing parties secured the majority of votes in some countries in the 2024 elections to the European Parliament. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, from the center-right European People’s Party coalition, has said that the new measures will prevent a repeat of the 2015 crisis caused by Syria’s civil war, when about 1 million people arrived to seek asylum.
Fueled by people fleeing conflict and poverty across Africa and the Middle East, the 2015 refugee crisis and successive years of irregular migration to Europe drove a rightward shift in the bloc's politics not unlike the anti-immigrant sentiment that buoyed a “ red wave ” in the 2024 election in the United States.
After successfully campaigning on tougher migration policies, the winners of that election, the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EU, began negotiating migration reform with centrist and left parties only to eventually sidestep them by allying instead with the far right, said Carter, the asylum rights activist. “There was quite an unprecedented shift in the European Parliament."
Advocacy groups warned the regulation would cut deep into the protections granted by the EU fundamental charter on human rights and expose people to risks outside the bloc.
“This deal will give governments much broader powers to detain and deport people," said Marta Welander, a spokesperson for the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization. "It looks set to normalize immigration raids, expand the use of detention in prison-like facilities outside EU territory that are essentially legal black holes, and increase the risk of people being deported to countries where they could face persecution, torture or worse.”
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Police conduct a search operation at a makeshift camp of migrants who want to cross the English Channel to Britain near Dunkirk, northern France, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
