Bernat Joan i Marí
Bernat Joan i Marí
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.
Education
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
- Member of the Social Council for the Catalan Language
- Researcher in the field of sociolinguistics
- Author of essays including Normalitat lingüística i llibertat nacional, Integració nacional i evolució electoral, and Una altra Europa és 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.