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Josep Borrell Fontelles (born 24 April 1947) is a Spanish politician. A member of the
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He was the President of the European Parliament from 20 July 2004 until 16 January 2007.
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 Wikimedia Commons Early life and career [ edit ]
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Acting: Since 29 April 2019
Print/export Borrell was born on 24 April 1947 in the village of La Pobla de Segur, province of Lleida. He Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
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Spain when the father of Borrell was 8 years old.[2] President of the European Parliament
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His very basic education was supplemented by reading, but he was able to complete his In office
Languages 20 July 2004 – 16 January 2007
secondary education in Lleida. He went to Barcelona to study industrial accounting, but left
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after a year in 1965 to go and study aeronautical engineering at the Technical University of
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Madrid (UPM), graduating in 1969. During this time he also began to study economic
Español Succeeded by Hans-Gert Pöttering
sciences at the Complutense University.
Français Leader of the Opposition
한국어 Borrell holds a Master's Degree in Operational Research from Stanford University in Palo
In office
Bahasa Indonesia Alto (California, USA), a Master's degree in Energy Economics from the French Institute of 24 April 1998 – 14 May 1999
Italiano Petroleum in Paris (France), a PhD in Economics from the Complutense University of Monarch Juan Carlos I
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Madrid in Madrid (Spain) and is professor on leave of Business Mathematics. He worked for
中 CEPSA for seven years. [1] In the summer of 1969 Borrell stayed at a kibbutz in Israel,
Prime Minister José María Aznar
Preceded by Joaquín Almunia
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where he met his future French wife Carolina Mayeur, from whom he is now divorced. In
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1975 he worked in Madrid as an engineer for the state petroleum company Campsa.
Minister of Public Works and Environment
In office
Political career [ edit ] 12 March 1991 – 6 May 1996
Prime Minister Felipe González
Career in national politics [ edit ]
Preceded by Javier Sáenz de Cosculluela
Borrell, who joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Succeeded by Rafael Arias-Salgado
Party (PSOE) in 1975,[3][4] started his political Member of the European Parliament
activity in the Socialist Grouping of Madrid-North In office
along Luis Solana and Luis Carlos Croissier.[5] He 13 June 2004 – 7 June2009

presented as the number 5 in the PSOE list for the Constituency Spain

1979 municipal election in Majadahonda,[6] Member of the Congress of Deputies

becoming city councillor. Borrell, who also became In office

6 June 1993 – 2 April 2004
a member of the 1979−1983 corporation of the

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 Borrell, Secretary of State of Provincial Deputation of Madrid, managed the Constituency Barcelona
Finance, next to Eduardo Sotillos, Financial Department of the provincial government City Councillor of Majadahonda
Spokesman of the Government, in La
Moncloa, 1984. body in the pre-autonomic period.[7][8] In office
19 April 1979 – 8 January 1983
In 1982 the new PSOE government of Felipe
Personal details
González appointed him to a post within the
Born 24 April 1947 (age 72)
Ministry of Economy with responsibility for fiscal policy. In 1986 he was elected to the La Pobla de Segur, Spain
Congress of Deputies representing Barcelona and remained an MP until 2004. Political party Spanish Socialist Workers'
In 1998 Borrell ran against PSOE's General Secretary Joaquin Almunia in a primary Party

election intended to determine who the party would nominate as its prime ministerial Spouse(s) Cristina Narbona

candidate in the 2000 General Elections. In May 1999, a fraud investigation was launched Alma mater Technical University of Madrid
into two officials who, several years earlier, Borrell had appointed to senior posts in the Complutense University

finance ministry. Though not involved in the inquiry into property purchases, Borrell
resigned, saying he did not want the affair to damage his party’s chances in the upcoming local and general elections.[9] Also, he had to
publicly deny rumors that he was a homosexual, while asserting his respect for homosexuals.[10]

In 2001, Borrell was appointed the Spanish parliament’s representative on the Convention on the Future of Europe.[11]

Member of the European Parliament, 2004–2009 [ edit ]

In 2004 Prime Minister and PSOE's General Secretary José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero proposed
Borrell to lead the Socialist Ticket in the 2004 European elections, managing to win the elections
by a narrow margin.

Elected for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Borrell sat with the Party of European
Socialists group, and served as leader of the Spanish delegation.

In the presidential vote, out of 700 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) he received an
absolute majority with 388 votes at the first ballot. The other two candidates were the Polish
Borrell during the 2005 Ibero- Liberal Bronisław Geremek (208 votes) and the French communist Francis Wurtz (51 votes).[12]
American Summit in Salamanca. He was the first newly elected MEP to hold the post since direct elections were held in 1979.[13]
As part of a deal with the conservative faction in the parliament, the EPP, he was succeeded as
president of the parliament by the German conservative politician Hans-Gert Pöttering in the second part of the five-year term.[14]

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 In his capacity as President, Borrell also chaired the Parliament's temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the
enlarged Union 2007-2013. From 2007 until leaving the Parliament in 2009,[15] he served as chairman of the Committee on Development.
In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the Parliament's delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Academic career, 2010–2018 [ edit ]

Borrell was nominated President of the European University Institute on 12 December 2008, and assumed this position in January 2010.
In 2012, he was forced to resign in the face of allegations of a conflict of interest.[16]

In 2012, the University of Lleida appointed Borrell to a professorship of competition and regional development sponsored by energy
company Repsol.[17] He also held the Jean Monnet Chair at the Institute of International Studies at Complutense University of Madrid.

In 2017, Borrell made a political comeback as one of the most outspoken opponents of Catalan secessionism, leading a large march in
Barcelona in October of that year.[18]

Foreign Minister, 2018–present [ edit ]

On 5 June 2018, it was revealed that Borrell will be appointed as the Foreign Minister in the
government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.[19]

Other positions [ edit ]

Corporate boards

Abengoa, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2009)[20]

Non-profit organizations Borrell (left) with US Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo in April 2019
Instituto Cervantes, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2018)
European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), Member of the Board[21]
European Movement International, Member of the Board of Trustees[22]
Fundación Focus, Member of the Board of Trustees[23]
Graduate School for Global and International Studies, University of Salamanca, Member of the Advisory Board[24]
Jacques Delors Institute, Member of the Board of Directors
Reporters Without Borders (RWB), Member of the Emeritus Board[25]
Global Progressive Forum (GPF), Chairman (2007-2011)

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 Honours [ edit ]

National honours [ edit ]

1996 – Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III[26]

2000 – Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic[27]
2007 – Grand Cross of the Order of the Civil Merit[28]
2011 – Medal of the Order of Constitutional Merit[29]

Foreign honours [ edit ]

2006 – Grand Order of Queen Jelena

2019 - Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru

Personal life [ edit ]

Since 1998, Borrell has been in a relationship with Cristina Narbona, ex-Environment Minister of Spain.[30] They married in July 2018. [31]

Notes [ edit ]

1. ^ Martin Banks (July 14, 2004), Parliament’s head boy European 8. ^ Díez, Anabel (5 June 2018). "Josep Borrell, ministro de
Voice. Exteriores" . El País.
2. ^ Pérez Oliva, Milagros (2 May 1998). "Un catalán del Pirineo que 9. ^ Martin Banks (July 14, 2004), Parliament’s head boy European
quiere conquistar España" . El País. Voice.
3. ^ "Borrell, tercer presidente español del PE" . ABC. 20 July 2004. 10. ^ Borrell condena la homofobia y recuerda que se le intentó
4. ^ "Un 55% de caras nuevas en la ejecutiva del PSOE" . El País. desacreditar calificándole de gay Archived 3 July 2009 at the
23 June 1997. Wayback Machine, Europa Press, 17 May 2006.
5. ^ T. L; A. P V (31 May 2004). "Duelo de exministros" . El Siglo de 11. ^ Martin Banks (July 14, 2004), Parliament’s head boy European
Europa (605). Voice.
6. ^ JUNTA ELECTORAL DE ZONA DE SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL: 12. ^ Borrell confirmed in top job European Voice, July 21, 2004.
"Candidaturas" . Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de Madrid (55): 4. 13. ^ Martin Banks (July 7, 2004), Newly elected Borrell set to land top
6 March 1979. Parliament position European Voice.
7. ^ "Biografía de José Borrell" . El Mundo. 14 May 1999. 14. ^ Dan Bilefsky (January 16, 2007), EU Parliament elects German
conservative International Herald Tribune.

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 15. ^ Dave Keating (April 25, 2012), Borrell forced to resign over 27. ^ MINISTERIO DE ASUNTOS EXTERIORES: "Real Decreto 38/2000, de 14
energy interests European Voice. de enero, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la Orden de
16. ^ Dave Keating (April 25, 2012), Borrell forced to resign over Isabel la Católica a don Josep Borrell Fontelles" (PDF). Boletín
energy interests European Voice. Oficial del Estado (13): 1960. 15 January 2000. ISSN 0212-033X .
17. ^ Dave Keating (April 25, 2012), Borrell forced to resign over 28. ^ MINISTERIO DE ASUNTOS EXTERIORES Y COOPERACIÓN: "Real Decreto
energy interests European Voice. 603/2007, de 4 de mayo, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la
18. ^ Raphael Minder (June 6, 2018), Spain’s New Leader Forms Orden del Mérito Civil a don Josep Borrell Fontelles" (PDF).
Government With Almost Two-Thirds Women New York Times. Boletín Oficial del Estado (108): 19456. 5 May 2007. ISSN 0212-
19. ^ https://apnews.com/055ba5dba5f44f1db6dc1b4fa43040fd 033X .
20. ^ Dave Keating (April 25, 2012), Borrell forced to resign over 29. ^ MINISTERIO DE LA PRESIDENCIA: "Real Decreto 675/2011, de 9 de
energy interests European Voice. mayo, por el que se concede la Medalla de la Orden del Mérito
21. ^ Advisory Council European Institute of the Mediterranean Constitucional a don Josep Borrell Fontelles" (PDF). Boletín

(IEMed). Oficial del Estado (111): 47773. 10 May 2011. ISSN 0212-033X .

22. ^ Board of Trustees European Movement International. 30. ^ Cristina Narbona , El Mundo (in Spanish)

23. ^ Board of Trustees Fundación Focus. 31. ^ "Josep Borrell y Cristina Narbona se casan en secreto" . El

24. ^ Advisory Council Graduate School for Global and International País. 23 November 2018.

Studies, University of Salamanca.

25. ^ Emeritus Board Reporters Without Borders (RWB).
26. ^ PRESIDENCIA DEL GOBIERNO: "Real Decreto 994/1996, de 10 de
mayo, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la Real y Muy
Distinguida Orden de Carlos III a don José Borrell Fontelles"
(PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (115): 16601. 11 May 1996.
ISSN 0212-033X .

External links [ edit ]

Official biography
Josep Borrell at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) (in Spanish)

Political offices
Preceded by Secretary of State of Finance Succeeded by
José Víctor Sevilla Segura 1986–1991 Antonio Zabalza

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 Preceded by Minister of Public Works and Environment Succeeded by
Javier Sáenz de Cosculluela 1991–1996 Rafael Arias-Salgado
Preceded by Leader of the Opposition Succeeded by
Joaquín Almunia 1998-1999 Joaquín Almunia
Preceded by President of the European Parliament Succeeded by
Pat Cox 2004–2007 Hans-Gert Pöttering
Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and
Preceded by
Cooperation Incumbent
Alfonso Dastis
2018–present

Party political offices

Leader of the Socialist Group in the Congress of
Preceded by Succeeded by
Deputies
Juan Manuel Eguiagaray Luis Martínez Noval
1998–1999

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