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Pyrenees–Mediterranean Euroregion
The Pyrenees–Mediterranean Euroregion (EPM) is a European grouping of territorial cooperation, European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC). Founded in 2004, it is a political cooperation organisation between the Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Government of the Balearic Islands and the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region. Its name in French is Eurorégion Pyrénées-Méditerranée, in Catalan Euroregió Pirineus Mediterrània, in Occitan Euroregion Pirinèus Mediterranèa, and in Spanish (Castilian) Eurorregión Pirineos Mediterráneo. The Euroregion's main working languages are Catalan and French, plus Spanish, Occitan and English for various communications. Historical background Originally formed in the 1990s by Jordi Pujol, it was under the guidance of Pasqual Maragall, Pascual Maragall that the Pyrenees–Mediterranean Euroregion was created on 29 October 2004. It was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quim Torra
Joaquim Torra i Pla (; born 28 December 1962), known as Quim Torra, is a Catalans, Catalan lawyer and journalist from Spain. He served as President of the Government of Catalonia from 17 May 2018 to 28 September 2020, when the Supreme Court of Spain confirmed a court ruling by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia condemning him for disobeying the Junta Electoral Central, Central Electoral Board during the April 2019 Spanish general election, April 2019 general election, leading to his disqualification from office. Born in Blanes, Torra graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona before joining the legal profession. He worked as executive for a multinational insurance company for twenty years before starting his own publishing company. He later held senior positions for the City of Barcelona and Generalitat de Catalunya. A supporter of Catalan independence movement, Catalan independence, and former member of Democratic Union of Catalonia and Reagrupament, Torra does n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carles Puigdemont
Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó (; born 29 December 1962) is a Catalan politician and journalist from Spain. He has been the President of Together for Catalonia (Junts) since 2024, having previously held the office from 2020 to 2022. He served as the 130th President of the Government of Catalonia from 2016 to 2017. His government held an independence referendum, which culminated in the unsuccessful Declaration of independence of Catalonia and his removal from office. He then served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024. After education in Amer and Girona, he became a journalist in 1982, writing for various local publications and becoming editor-in-chief of ''El Punt''. He was the director of the Catalan News Agency from 1999 to 2002 and the director of Girona's House of Culture from 2002 to 2004. Puigdemont's family were supporters of Catalan independence and Puigdemont became involved in politics as a teenager, joining the nationalist Democratic Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Delga
Carole Delga (; born 19 August 1971) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as the President of the Regional Council of Occitania since 2016. Delga is considered to be a potential candidate in the 2027 French presidential election. Political career Delga has been a member of the Socialist Party since 2004. Member of the National Assembly, 2012–2017 From 2012 until 2017, Delga was a member of the National Assembly, where she served on the Finance Committee (2012–2014) and the Defence Committee (2015–2017). In 2014, Delga briefly served as Secretary of State for Trade, Crafts, Consumer and Social Economy and Solidarity under Minister of Finance and Public Accounts Michel Sapin in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls; she replaced Valérie Fourneyron who had resigned for health reasons. In June 2015, she left the government to launch her campaign for regional elections; she was replaced by Martine Pinville. President of Occi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Alary
Damien Alary (; born January 17, 1951, in Pompignan) is a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party. He was the chairman of the Departmental Council of Gard from 2001 to 2014, then briefly President of the regional council of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2014 to 2015. Biography Political career He joined the Socialist Party in 1977 after a meeting with Michel Rocard. In 1979, he was elected mayor of Pompignan; in 1986, regional councilor of Languedoc-Roussillon, and in 1988, general councilor of the canton of Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort. He was elected in Gard's 5th constituency in 1997 and re-elected in 2002, from the Socialist Group. After having chaired the socialist group, under the presidency of Alain Journet, within the general council of Gard from 1998 to 2001, he was elected president in 2001. In 2004, he was elected first vice-president of the Regional Council. After the regional elections of 2004, he resigned because of multiple mandates. On February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francina Armengol
Francesca Lluc Armengol Socias, known as Francina Armengol Socias (; born 11 August 1971), is a Spanish politician from the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands. She currently serves as president of the Congress of Deputies since 2023 Cortes Generales internal elections, 2023 and as member of the Congress of Deputies from the Balearic Islands (Congress of Deputies constituency), Balearic Islands since 2023. Early life Armengol was born on 11 August 1971 in Inca, Mallorca. She is the daughter of Juan Armengol, who was the mayor of Inca from 1991 to 1995. By 1991 she had joined the PSOE. She studied pharmacy at the University of Barcelona and then completed a postgraduate degree in dermopharmacy and law studies at the Open University of Catalonia. She was also a member of the Bloc d'Estudiants Independentistes during the time she studied pharmacy. She first entered politics in 1997, as she was deputy secretary of the PSOE in Mallorca until 1998, and was afterward, from 1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Ramón Bauzá
José Ramón Bauzá Díaz (; born 16 November 1970) is a Spanish politician and the president of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands from 2011 to 2015. Born to a Majorcan father and a mother native to Madrid, he is licensed as a pharmacist by the Complutense University of Madrid. He owns his own pharmacy in his hometown of Marratxí. Political career In the People's Party (Spain), People´s Party * 1995-1999: Councillor in the opposition of Marrachí City Council. * 2001-2003: deputy mayor for Town Planning and Health in the City Council of Marrachí. * 2005-2011: Mayor of Marrachí. * 2007-2009: vice-president of the Partido Popular of Baleares. * 2009-2015: president of the Partido Popular of the Balearic Islands. * 2011-2015: president of the Balearic Islands. * 2015-2019: Senate, senator appointed by the Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands Parliament. In Citizens (Spanish political party), Citizens * 2019-2024: Member of the European Parliament Controversy A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Mas
Artur Mas i Gavarró (; born 31 January 1956) is a Catalan politician from Spain. He was president of the Government of Catalonia from 2010 to 2015 and acting president from September 2015 to 12 January 2016. Mas is a long time member of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC by its Catalan acronym) which used to be the bigger of the two component members –along with Unió Democràtica de Catalunya– of what at the time was a long-standing electoral coalition, Convergència i Unió (CiU), a liberal nationalist coalition which had dominated Catalan regional politics since the 1980s. In 2001 Mas was named general secretary of CDC, then, in 2012 he was named president of the party until the party was refounded in July 2016 as PDeCAT, which he presided between July 2016 and January 2018. From 2003 to 2015, Mas has run five times for the Catalan presidency, four heading the –nowadays defunct– CiU ticket and one running for the novel Junts pel Sí coalition. He attai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Bourquin
Christian Bourquin (; 7 October 1954 – 26 August 2014) was a French politician, a member of the Socialist Party. He was the president of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2010 to his death in August 2014. Biography Bourquin was born at , Pyrenees-Orientales. He was elected Mayor of in 1995, holding the post until 2001. Bourquin died of cancer, aged 59, at |
Georges Frêche
Georges Frêche (; July 9, 1938 – October 24, 2010) was a French politician. He served as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region from 2004 until his death: prior to that, he had been mayor of Montpellier for 27 years, and was also a former member (''député'') of the National Assembly. Frêche had been a member of the French Socialist Party until he was expelled on January 27, 2007. A long-time political figure within French political circles, Frêche was an extremely controversial character, considered by some a great builder and visionary, while criticised by others and judged in court for his controversial remarks, which were sometimes interpreted as racist. Life and career Frêche was born in Puylaurens, Tarn, in 1938. His father was a military officer, while his mother was a primary school headmistress.. Frêche studied law in Paris, and was appointed professor of law at the University of Montpellier 1 in 1969, specializing in Roman law, before entering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesc Antich
Francesc Antich Oliver (; 28 November 1958 – 2 January 2025) was a Venezuelan-born Spanish politician, who was the President of the Balearic Islands between 1999 and 2003, and 2007 and 2011. He also was the Secretary General of the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands, a branch of the SSWP. Antich was born in Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ... on 28 November 1958, to Spanish emigrants from Venezuela. He died from cancer on 2 January 2025, at the age of 66. References 1958 births 2025 deaths Members of the 8th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 9th Senate of Spain Members of the 10th Senate of Spain Members of the 11th Senate of Spain Members of the 12th Senate of Spain Members of the 13th Senate of Spain Members of the Parli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
