Ramon Tremosa i Balcells is a Catalan economist and politician, professor at the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Barcelona, where he obtained his Doctorate about the influence of macroeconomic policy in the Catalan manufacturing industry. From 2009 onwards he has been independent MEP for Convergència i Unió and has been re-elected in 2014. He is author of various books and academic articles about monetary politics, fiscal federalism and regional economics.
Official portrait
Ramon Tremosa with Mario Draghi, then President of the European Central Bank as elected speaker of the yearly report
2009 European Parliament election in Spain
The 2009 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 7 June 2009, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 7th European Parliament. All 50 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Nice—54 after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2011—were up for election.
Image: Jaime Mayor Oreja 2009b (cropped)
Image: Juan Fernando López Aguilar (cropped B)
Image: Ramon Tremosa 2014 (cropped)
Image: Willy Meyer 2014 (cropped)