For the next two and a half years the European Parliament will be guided by Josep Borrell, a 57-year old Socialist from Catalonia.
Mr Borrell, who speaks Spanish, Catalan, French and English, was a treasury minister and then a transport minister under former socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzales in the 1980s and early 1990s.
He was nominated as the socialist candidate to head the parliament after his party did so well in the European elections - Spain was one of the few countri...
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