PilarDelCastilloVera

General Data

 * Born on 31 July 1952, Nador (Marruecos)
 * Country: Spain
 * Political Group: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) (PPE) Party: Partido Popular

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 * Parlement européen
 * Parlement européen


 * Email: [mailto:pilar.delcastillo@europarl.europa.eu pilar.delcastillo(at)europarl.europa.eu]
 * Page on European Parliament website: www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=28390
 * Site web: www.pilardelcastillo.com

Functions in European Parliament

 * Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (Member)
 * Delegation for relations with India (Member)
 * Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (Substitute)
 * Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (Substitute)

Curriculum Vitae

 * Law degree (Complutense University of Madrid, 1974)
 * Fulbright scholarship (Ohio State University 1981-1982)
 * Masters degree in political science (Ohio State University, 1982)
 * PhD in law (Complutense University of Madrid, 1983)
 * Associate professor of constitutional law (UNED - the Spanish open university, 1986)
 * Professor of political science (1994)
 * Minister for Education, Culture and Sport (2000-2004)
 * Member of Parliament for the constituency of Granada (2004)
 * Executive President of Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Sociology Research Centre) (1996-2000)
 * Editor of Nueva Revista de Política, Cultura y Arte (New Review of Politics, Culture and Art) (1995-1996)
 * Coordinator for the PPE-DE Group in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
 * Chair of the Board of Governors of the European Internet Foundation
 * Doctoral thesis award from Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (1984)
 * Member of various national and international political science and sociology associations
 * Author of various books and articles on political parties and political and electoral behaviour

Votes

 * 24/11/2010 - Resolution on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) 2.6/100
 * 06/05/2009 - Directives reforming the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (telecoms package), 2nd reading 13.9/100
 * 24/09/2008 - Directives reforming the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (telecoms package), 1st reading 41.9/100
 * 25/04/2007 - Criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED 2), 1st reading 14.5/100

Positions
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02/09/2008 Telecoms Package Plenary Speeches
Madam President, in this final intervention I want to thank the Council for its availability, that has again proved today. I also want to thank, and a lot, to the Commission, in particular to the Commissioner, the sensibility she has always proved in her fireproof defense –I would say- of an electronic communication market more competitive and of the protection to consumers. And I also want to make public my gratitude, in a very first place, to my colleagues, who, both here today and in previous working days, have proved up to which point are they sensitive to the importance this sector has for european economic growth and hence, for the employment and the welfare of all the citizens of Europe. Now, I want to just ask the Council that, in this final period to the end of the current Presidency, give this Telecom package at least a similar priority to the one given to energy –what is very important, but this package is not less important- in order we can advance from this point of equilibrium we have found and that has just pointed out my colleague Trautmann. The Parliament offers a series of proposals, in general very well balanced, I would say, that in a later stage, during the negociations with the Council and the Commission, could solve this problem successfully. Thank you very much. We expected a lot from the Presidency in this sense.