Ernest Urtasun

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Ernest Urtasun (2015)

Ernest Urtasun Domènech (born January 27, 1982 in Barcelona , Catalonia ) is a Spanish economist , former diplomat and politician ( Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds ). He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014 and was re-elected in 2019.

Life

education and profession

Urtasun studies economics at the Autonomous University in Barcelona. He then completed a postgraduate degree in international relations at the University of Barcelona .

From 2004 to 2008 Urtasun worked as an assistant for the Catalan MEP Raül Romeva . In 2009 he entered the Spanish diplomatic service, working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development. In 2011 he was an advisor to the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean .

politics

Ernest Urtasun (left) next to Bronis Ropė in the European Parliament

Urtasun has been a member of the green Catalan party ICV since he was 16, initially he was active in the left-green party youth ( Joves d'esquerra verda ). He ran for the local elections in Barcelona in 2003 and 2007. For the first time he ran for the European elections in 2004 , but in 28th place in the Izquierda Unida list , which won just two seats with a good 4.15 percent. From 2007 he coordinated the international relations of his party and thus also its accession to the European Green Party .

In the 2009 European elections , he ran for 33rd place on the Izquierda Unida list, which in turn only won two seats. For the European elections in 2014 , he ran as the top candidate of his party and third on the joint list connection La Izquierda Plural . With 10.03 percent, the list connection won six seats, so that Urtasun moved into the European Parliament and became a member of the Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance . Since then, he has represented the group in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality . He is a deputy in the Committee on Foreign Affairs .

Urtasun ran again for the 2019 European elections : his party joined the list link Unidas Podemos cambiar Europa / Unides Podem canviar Europa , which also included candidates from the Podemos and Izquierda Unida parties . Urtasun ran for third place on the list. The list connection won 10.05 percent and thus six of the 59 Spanish mandates, including Urtasun. He rejoined the Greens / EFA parliamentary group, at whose constituent meeting he was elected one of the seven deputy group chairmen. As in the previous legislature, he is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality for his group. He is also again a deputy in the Committee on Foreign Affairs .

In the run-up to the election of the President of the EU Commission, Urtasun was part of the group's intergroup negotiating team in order to work out a joint work program for the European Parliament. Together with his parliamentary group colleague Terry Reintke , he negotiated the issues of migration, borders and the rule of law for the parliamentary group.

Web links

Commons : Ernest Urtasun  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Perfil: Ernest Urtasun, un diplomàtic jove per seguir l'estela de Romeva a Brussel·les. In: Europapress.cat. December 21, 2013, accessed February 27, 2018 (Catalan).
  2. ↑ Ernest Urtasun. European Green Party, accessed on February 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ CANDIDATURAS proclamadas a las elecciones de Diputados al Parlamento Europeo, convocadas por Real Decreto 561/2004, de 19 de abril, a celebrar el 13 de junio de 2004. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Junta Electoral Central, 18. May 2004, p. 18946 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 12, 2014 (Spanish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.juntaelectoralcentral.es
  4. ↑ Candidaturas presentadas a las elecciones de Diputados al Parlamento Europeo convocadas por Real Decreto 482/2009, de 3 de abril, a celebrar el 7 de junio de 2009. (PDF) In: Boletín Oficial del Estado. Junta Electoral Central, May 6, 2009, p. 39379 , archived from the original March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 12, 2014 (Spanish, originally published in Boletín Ofical del Estado, Núm. 110, Sec. III, pág. 39346 of May 6, 2009).
  5. ↑ Llista d'Unides Podem (En Comú Podem) per a les eleccions europees 2019. May 12, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2019 (Catalan).
  6. ↑ Greens / EFA parliamentary group has elected a new parliamentary group. Greens / EFA Group, 12 June 2019, accessed on 7 July 2019 .
  7. ↑ Home | Ernest URTASUN | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Florian Eder: POLITICO Brussels Playbook, presented by Google: Madrid's moment - Parliament working groups sneak peak - Happy birthday, GDPR. June 13, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Urtasun, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Domènech Urtasun, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish economist, diplomat and politician (ICV), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona