The Jean Monnet 2022 Workshop, which was held on Wednesday, March 23 at 4:00 p.m., featured an invited presentation by Jaume Duch, Spokesperson and General Director of Communication of the European Parliament and member of the Advisory Council of the Fondation Jean Monnet, who spoke on Ukraine, the new geostrategic scenarios and the role of the European Parliament in the future of Europe.
Jaume Duch has a degree in Law and worked as professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona (from 1986 to 1990). Official of the European Union since 1990, he has always carried out tasks related to parliamentary information, including spokesman and adviser to the President between 1997 and 1999, head of the Press Service or director of the Media. Since 2006 he has been the spokesman for the European Parliament and since February 2017 the institution’s General Director for Communication.
As spokesperson for the European Parliament, Duch responds to the media accredited in Brussels on matters relating to the European Parliament as an institution, directs press conferences on the activities carried out by the European Parliament and supports the President of the European Parliament in his relations with the media.
In addition, since June 2014 he has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Fondation Jean Monnet and is the author of various publications, articles and communications on issues related to the institutions of the European Union (EU), community law and European communication. Likewise, he has served as a speaker at numerous workshops, conferences and seminars.
This was followed by a round table that addressed “the role of the regions in the future of Europe”. The round table included the participation of three speakers: Sean O’Curneen, Secretary General of Renew Europe in the European Committee of the Regions, an EU body made up of local and regional representatives whose purpose is to give regions and cities a voice in the European institutions; Inma Valencia, Director of the Government Office of Cantabria in Brussels, who provided the perspective of said Office and her experience in its relationship with European institutions; and Paulino Alonso, President of the Casa de Europa Association in Cantabria, who provided the vision of society through the Casa de Europa, an association whose spheres of action and interest are oriented towards issues relating to the European Union in the field political, economic and social.