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regional level. Before resuming a university ap-
pointment Daniel Buhr worked in different mar-
keting and communication positions – as journal-
ist and editor, marketing director, PR-consultant
and press spokesman, as founder and executive
officer, in start-ups, consulting firms and interna-
tional IT-companies.
José Candela Castillo
is a member of the
European Affairs Council of the Fundación
Alternativas. He has been an official of the
European Commission since 1986 to 2014 as
member of the Cabinet of the Vice-President of
the Commission and as Head of the Units of
Application of Community Law and Governance
in the Secretariat General of the Commission.
He took part in the Group of Commissioners
responsible for preparing the Maastricht Treaty
in 1992, chaired by Jacques Delors and was
editor of the European Commission’s White
Paper on European Governance in 2001 and
Assistant to the representation of the European
Commission in the Convention on the future of
Europe that drafted the European Constitution
in 2003. He has also been an advisor to the
Spanish Secretary of State for the European
Union. He has given numerous courses and lec-
tures and published several chapters of collec-
tive books and articles on Community Law and
Governance in journals such as the
Revue du
Marché Unique Européen
, the
Revue du Marché
Commun et de l’Union Européenne
or the
Revista Española de Derecho Europeo
. José
Candela Castillo is Professor of Philosophy of
Law, Morals and Politics at the Faculty of Law of
the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Carlos Carnero.
Managing Director of
Fundación Alternativas. Carnero has served as a
member of the European Parliament (1994-
2009), Spanish ambassador-at-large for European
integration 2009-2012), and Vice-President of the
Party of European Socialists (2006-2009). He was
also a member of the Convention that drafted the
European Constitution. He has collaborated on
several books, including
Construyendo la Cons-
titución Europea. Crónica política de la convención,
Manual de instrucciones de la Constitución
Europea, Europa en la encrucijada
and
La diploma-
cia común europea: el servicio europeo de acción
exterior, Gobernanza económica de la Unión
Europea y salida de la crisis
. Carnero holds a degree
in Tourism. He is a professor in the master pro-
gramme on EU of the Institute of European Studies
at the University CEU-San Pablo. Carnero is mem-
ber of the Scientific Council of Real Instituto Elcano.
The Spanish government awarded him the Order of
Constitutional Merit and the Order of Civil Merit for
his work related to the European Union and foreign
affairs, and the European Parliament with itsMedal.
José Luis Escario Díaz-Berrio
is Master of
International and Community Law from the
University of Leuven. He has worked in the
European Commission, European Parliament
and the Spanish Administration. He has been
Policy Advisor for Taxation in Oxfam Intermón
and Coordinator for European Union Affairs at
Fundación Alternativas (FA). Currently he is
Consultant in tax issues at the European
Parliament, after having been Advisor of mem-
bers of the Inquiry Committee and Special
Committees created after the LuxLeak and
Panama Papers affairs. He is also member of
the FA Council of European Affairs and has
been coordinator of the State of the European
Union Report. He is the author of books and
numerous scientific articles on European and
taxation issues.