The Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) is a trans-national body of 150 Parliamentarians from Europe and Latin America . It was established in 2006 to bolster EU-Latin American relations. It was described by Benita Ferrero-Waldner , the European Union's External Relations Commissioner , as "one of the key bodies in ensuring fruitful cooperation between our two regions."
5-859: EuroLat is led by a Co-Presidency, the current European Co-President is Ramón Jáuregui Atondo and the Latin American Co-President is José Leonel Vasquéz Búcaro (of El Salvador , Parlacen). There are 14 Co-Vice Presidents, again equally split. The Co-Presidents and the Co-Vice Presidents form the Executive Bureau, the managing body. EuroLat has four standing committees: Political, Security and Human Rights Affairs; Economic, Financial and Trade Affairs; Committee on Social Affairs, Youth and Children, Human Exchanges, Education and Culture and Committee on Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy Policy, Research, Innovation and Technology. There can be
10-524: A maximum of 2 temporary committees or working groups. The 150 members are split equally between European and Latin American members, currently drawn from the following bodies; Executive Bureau Members from European Parliament ; Executive Bureau Members from Latin America ; This article about an international organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
15-701: The Committee on Constitutional Affairs . In 2016, he also joined the Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) that is to investigate the Panama Papers revelations and tax avoidance schemes more broadly. In addition to his committee assignments, Jáuregui served as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara . In March 2018, he announced his will to leave politics. He did not state at
20-768: The European Union is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ram%C3%B3n J%C3%A1uregui Atondo Ramón Jáuregui Atondo (born 1948) is a Spanish politician. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served as Minister of the Presidency (2010–2011) during the Second Zapatero Government. He also was member of the European Parliament in two separate spells (2009–2010 and 2014–2019). He served as Vice-Lehendakari of
25-781: The Basque Government from 1987 to 1991. Jáuregui first served as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2010. During that brief period, he was the Parliament's rapporteur on the European Union's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights . From 2014 until 2019, Jáuregui served as chair of the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly and as member of
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