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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

• Graduate in Catalan Philology
• Doctor in Catalan 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 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

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.

References

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

External links

• Personal profile of Bernat Joan i Marí in the European Parliament's database of members
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Spanish)
• Bernat Joan i Marí on The Association of Catalan Language Writers, AELC.

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