Bernat Joan i Marí (born 22 February 1960 in Ibiza, Balearic Islands,

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) was a

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

with the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, part of the

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and sat on the

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. He was a substitute for the

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, a vice-chair of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the

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countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including

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Education

* Graduate in

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...

Philology *

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Philology

Career

* 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

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al Science,

University of the Balearic Islands The University of the Balearic Islands ( ca, Universitat de les Illes Balears, UIB; es, Universidad de las Islas Baleares ) is a Balearic Spanish university, founded in 1978 and located in Palma on the island of Majorca. The university is funded ...

* Lecturer at the Universitat Catalana d'Estiu (Catalan Summer University) * Member of the Social Council for the Catalan Language (Balearic Islands) *

Research Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...

er 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

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

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, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reform in the United Nations.

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Bernat Joan i Marí
on The Association of Catalan Language Writers, AELC. 1960 births Living people Republican Left of Catalonia MEPs People from Ibiza University of the Balearic Islands faculty {{Spain-MEP-stub