THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Towards a new legislative term

THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 114 regularly in various media. He has received the Orders of Constitutional Merit and Civil Merit of Spain and the medal of the European Parliament. He holds a university diploma in Tourism. José Enrique de Ayala. Army Brigadier General, re- tired. Diploma in General Staff and Joint Staffs. Diploma in Advanced International Studies from the Society of International Studies. Former military attaché at the Spanish Embassy in Germany and Chief of Staff of the European Army Corps. Analyst of international politics, specialized in the European Union, he collaborates with numerous written and audiovisual media. He is a mem- ber of the European Affairs Council of the Fundación Alternativas. Claudia Detsch. Director of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stif- tung (FES) Competence Center “Socially Just Climate Policy in Europe”, based in Brussels. Her previous posi- tions within FES include editor-in-chief of the IPG Jour- nal and director of New Society. She has also headed the office of the FES in Ecuador. Claudia is a sociologist by training. José Luis Escario. Consultant on international taxa- tion and green taxation issues, member of the European Affairs Council of Fundación Alternativas and Fellow of the Aspen Institute Spain. Formerly, he has been a consultant to the European Parliament on tax issues (TAXE 1, 2 and 3 and PANA), tax expert at the Euro- pean Economic and Social Council, associate researcher at the Carolina Foundation and head of “Taxation for the Private Sector” at Oxfam Intermón. Professor of In- ternational Taxation at the International University of La Rioja and author of the book Paraísos Fiscales (Catarata 2011), he has published numerous articles on topics related to the European Union, green transition, devel- opment cooperation, global governance and the fight against tax havens.@joseluisescario / LinkdIn Francisco Fonseca Morillo. Professor of International Public Law at the University of Valladolid and Director of the Institute of European Studies at the UVA. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Valladolid and a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Com- plutense University of Madrid. He has been linked to the European Commission since 1986, holding different positions in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs and within the cabinet of the former Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs, Antonio Vitorino, or as Deputy Director General for Justice and Consumers. He was also director of the Representation of the European Commission in Spain. He has partici- pated in the elaboration of many academic works on Community law and the European Union and is the au- thor of numerous publications. Mercedes Guinea. Professor of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid. A specialist in the study of European integration, her main lines of research are the political model of the European Union and European foreign policy. In 2016 she collaborated with Fundación Alternativas, together with Francisco Aldecoa, in the elaboration of the study Renegotiation by the United Kingdom of its constitutional relationship with the European Union: Issues related to Sovereign- ty , commissioned by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament. Björn Hacker. Professor of European Economic Policy at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW). He is a member of the academic board of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP). His main areas of research are European economic governance, European social policy and the comparative study of welfare state policies in the EU. Prior to 2014 he worked at the Friedrich-Ebert- Stiftung (FES) in Berlin. His latest main publications are: Unequal Europe. Tackling Regional Disparities in the EU (FES/FEPS Stockholm / Brussels. 2021) and A European Social Semester? The European Pillar of Social Rights in practice (ETUI Brussels, 2019). Elena Muñoz Martínez. She is the State Coordinator of the Legal Service of the Spanish Commission for Refu- gee Aid. With a degree in Law and Political Science and Administration from the Carlos III University of Madrid, she is a lawyer specialising in Asylum Law, Stateless- ness and Human Rights, with more than sixteen years of experience in direct assistance to people in need of international protection and in strategic litigation before national and European Courts.