Guillermo Martínez Casañ (

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...

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, 4 December 1955) is a Spanish politician and former Member of the Spanish ParliamentFTP Hosts a Trans-Atlantic Panel with Members of the United States Congress and the European Parliament
April 30, 2008 who belongs to the People's Party (PP). Martínez is qualified in law and has LL.M. in Air and Space Law, Shipping Law, as well as in International law from

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. He began his professional career working as a counsel lawyer in the UK and France before entering politics in 1986 becoming a Principal Administrator in the European Parliament. He was active in Observer during the Turkish referendum at the end of the military regime, the end of Sandinism in Nicaragua and the end of Apartheid in South Africa. He was in charge of the Temporary Committee for the Unification of Germany. He joined the

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in 1993 when he was elected to the

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from

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, which he represented until 2004. He served as the spokesman of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union in both upper and lower legislative chambers. Martínez-Casan was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the

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as the chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs. He was appointed as a rapporteur on Caucasus and Azerbaijan affairs on several occasions. His other titles included the vice-president of the Spanish delegation and the chairman of the Conservative Group and Political Committee in the Western European Union Assembly; vice-chairman of the European Movement Spain and board member of the

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. Afterwards, he joined the Cabinet of Ms

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. In January 2005, he re-joined his post as an official in the

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. Since 2005, Martínez-Casan has been the director of the

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(EIN) a

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sponsored by the European People's Party Group (

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). Since 2009, Mr Martínez-Casan is one of the two co-secretary's generals, with

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of the Trans-Atlantic Group on Counter Jihad Terrorism (TAG) with offices in Brussels and Washington DC.

References

External links

Biography at Spanish Congress website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez Casan, Guillermo 1955 births Living people Politicians from Valencia Members of the 5th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 6th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 7th Congress of Deputies (Spain) People's Party (Spain) MEPs