The MEP Rosa You will be This Thursday she is the guest of the European Bridges information forum organized by EL PERIÓDICO, Prensa Ibérica and Agenda Pública and which will focus on the disability and rights for an inclusive Europe. You will be currently rapporteur of the European Union strategy about disability. Together with her he will also participate in this forum Xavier Puigdollerspresident of the commission on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Illustrious Bar Association of Barcelona (ICAB).
Estaràs (Valldemossa, 1965) has been a MEP of the European People’s Party since 2009 and vice-president of the Commission on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament. Graduated in Law from the University of the Balearic Islands, she also works in Brussels as general secretary of the Popular Group in the European Parliament and is a member of several commissions and delegations of the European Parliament. He started in the Regional Development Commission and as of 2014 he assumed the vice presidency of the Petitions Commission.
Estaràs defends Europe as a key space to ensure equal opportunities, the protection of citizens and democratic stability
Over more than 15 years in the European Parliament, Estaràs has defended the role of the European Union as guarantor of rights and freedoms. In his speech, Europe appears as a key space to ensure the equal opportunities, the protection of citizens and democratic stability.
His profile in Brussels has a marked social accent. The defense of the rights of people with disabilities occupies a central place in their work, within a broader agenda focused on equality and the protection of vulnerable groups. Added to this is an international perspective that places the European Union as a fundamental actor in the defense of democracy against external threats.
In this context, he warns of an increasingly unstable global scenario, with conflicts such as the war in Ukraine or the crisis in the Middle East, which he interprets as direct challenges to European values. She has also raised her voice about the situation of women in Iran, denouncing the repression they suffer and thus reinforcing her discourse in defense of human rights beyond community borders.
At the same time, it maintains an agenda very close to the territory from which it comes, the Balearic Islands. From Brussels, he demands recognition of the insularity factor and specific policies for the Balearic Islands, in addition to betting on a sustainable tourism model that avoids overcrowding without harming the sector.
Career in Balearic politics
Estaràs’s political career began in the early 1990s in the Balearic institutional sphere. A trusted person of the former president of the Balearic Islands Gabriel Cañellas, between 1991 and 1993 she held the position of general director of Institutional Relations of the Government. Simultaneously, between 1991 and 1999 he held responsibilities at the municipal level as Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning and Culture in the Valldemossa City Council.
In April 1993 she was appointed deputy advisor to the Presidency of the Government and, two months later, she assumed the positions of vice president and spokesperson for the regional Executive, functions she held until 1995 under the presidency of Gabriel Cañellas. That same year she was elected deputy in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands.
Between 1995 and 2000 she was a regional deputy and, at the same time, counselor of the Consell Insular de Mallorca. Subsequently, between 2000 and 2003, she served as head of the opposition in the Balearic Parliament and spokesperson for the Popular Group.
After the 2003 elections, she became part of the Balearic Government as vice president and advisor for the Presidency and Institutional Relations during the presidency of Jaume Matas, a position she held until 2007 as his number two. Between 2007 and 2009 she returned to serve as head of the opposition in the Balearic Parliament, while becoming a mentor to José Ramón Bauzá, president of the Government between 2011 and 2015.
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