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Josep Borrell

Catalan-Spanish diplomat and politician (born 1947)

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    51 languages
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  • Age
    79
    Born 1947
  • Known for
    Two Catalonias
    2018
Summary
Updated 2026-08-27

The face of European foreign policy through Ukraine, Gaza, and the fracturing of the old transatlantic consensus — five years steering diplomacy for 27 nations that rarely agree on anything.

Biography

About

Born 24 April 1947 in the Catalan village of La Pobla de Segur, Borrell trained as an aeronautical engineer and economist, later teaching mathematics. He entered politics in the 1970s with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party during the transition to democracy, rising through Felipe González's governments: General Secretary for the Budget and Public Spending from 1982, Secretary of State for Finance from 1984, then Minister of Public Works and Transport from 1991 to 1996. After an unexpected PSOE primary win in 1998 made him Leader of the Opposition, he resigned in 1999 and shifted to Brussels…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Josep Borrell

Josep Borrell
said
We cannot afford Russia to win this war. Otherwise the US and European interests will be very damaged.
— Speech, 'Europeans have to take more responsibility for our defense,' says EU foreign policy chief, 25 March 2024.
Josep Borrell
said
Russia is a great country, it is a great nation, it is used to fighting to the end, and it is used to almost losing and then recovering.
— Speech during the Ceremonia de Entrega del Premio Nueva Economía Fórum, 20 January 2023.
Josep Borrell
said
Europe is a garden. We have built a garden... The rest of the world… is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle. The jungle could invade the garden.
— Quoted in EU’s Borrell calls Europe ‘garden,’ rest of world a ‘jungle’, 18 October 2022.
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