13/01/10 Javier Solana becomes patron of the Master's Programme class of the Real Instituto de Estudios Europeos

Javier Solana, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Secretary-General of NATO, who has just stepped down as Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, has agreed to be the patron of the 22nd class of the Master's Programme in European Union.

Javier Solana, who received the Medal of the Real Instituto de Estudios Europeos in Brussels in 2006 and has spoken at the Institute, including in Zaragoza, has done outstanding work for ten years in an exceptionally difficult post.

The Javier Solana class is made up of participants from nine countries in Europe, the Americas and Africa, from ten different degree backgrounds.