María Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio (born 24 July 1961 at

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) is a Spanish

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, journalist and businesswomen who served as a

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from 2004 until 2014. In 2002, Jiménez-Becerril became President of the Jiménez Becerril Foundation and in 2009, she was elected as a

representing the Partido Popular and was returned to

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in the 2014 European elections. In early 2014, the Partido Popular chose Jiménez-Becerril to be the party list's number 3 for the 2014 European elections, following

Miguel Arias Cañete Miguel Arias Cañete (born 24 February 1950) is a Spanish politician who served as European Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action in the Juncker Commission from 2014 to 2019. A member of the Spanish People's Party, Arias served as Minist ...

and

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. Following the elections, she was elected chairwoman of the delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee. In addition to her committee assignments, Jiménez-Becerril was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability. In addition to her committee assignments, Jiménez-Becerril has been a substitute member of the Spanish delegation to the

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(PACE) since 2020, where she serves on the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development.Teresa Jiménez-Becerril

Other activities

* Fundación Alberto Jiménez-Becerril contra el Terrorismo, President

References

External links

Fundación Alberto Jiménez-Becerril
www.fundacionalbertojimenez-becerril.org 1961 births Living people Complutense University of Madrid alumni Members of the 13th Congress of Deputies (Spain) MEPs for Spain 2009–2014 MEPs for Spain 2014–2019 21st-century women MEPs for Spain Politicians from Seville People's Party (Spain) MEPs Spanish women journalists Women members of the Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 14th Congress of Deputies (Spain) {{Spain-MEP-stub