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Bernat Joan i Marí

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Bernat Joan i Marí

Bernat Joan i Marí (born 22 February 1960 in Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain) was a Member of the European Parliament with the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, part of the European Free Alliance and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.

He was a substitute for the Committee on Development, a vice-chair of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya).

Education

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Career

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  • 1993-1996: Vice-president of the ERC National Council
  • President of the ERC in the Balearic Islands
  • Professor of Catalan Language and Literature
  • Lecturer in the field of retraining at the Institute of Educational Science, University of the Balearic Islands
  • Lecturer at the Universitat Catalana d'Estiu (Catalan Summer University)
  • Member of the Social Council for the Catalan Language (Balearic Islands)
  • Researcher in the field of sociolinguistics
  • Author of essays including Normalitat lingüística i llibertat nacional (Linguistic normalcy and national liberty), Integració nacional i evolució electoral (National integration and electoral evolution), and Una altra Europa és possible (Another Europe is possible), as well as novels and theatrical works.

Trivia

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In December 2006, he contributed to the Flemish Secession hoax, by giving an interview in which he congratulated Flemings for their purported independence.

He is a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reform in the United Nations.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Overview". Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
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