Raül Romeva

Raül Romeva i Rueda ( born March 12, 1971 Madrid ) is a Spanish political scientist and politician of the Catalan Green Party ICV. Since 2004 he is member of the European Parliament for the Greens / EFA group.

Career

After studying economics until 1989 Romeva worked for UNESCO and the NGO Oxfam as an analyst on the topics of reconstruction after armed conflicts and disarmament. 1995 to 1996 he directed the education program of UNESCO in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the following year he was the OSCE election observers in this country. 2002 doctorate Romeva at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​where he worked as a Professor of International Relations later.

In the 2004 European elections Romeva was chosen for the Catalan Green Party Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds (ICV) in the European Parliament. He was a member of the Greens / EFA Group and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Gender Equality and a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. During his tenure as an MP, he criticized several times the role of various European states in the international arms trade.

In the European elections in 2009 Romeva occurred on the second place of the common list of the ICV and the Izquierda Unida leftist (IU ). He could again win a mandate and was again a member of the gender committee, but not the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Romeva published several books on the reconstruction after armed conflicts, disarmament issues and the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.