1. Javier Nart attended an Opus Dei school and was being prepared to join the Society of Jesus, something that did not suit him because he is nonreligious.
20 Facts About Javier Nart
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Javier Nart studied law at the University of Barcelona, but took up journalism because he wanted to make his way to Barcelona without his father.
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Javier Nart jokes that he was a "picapleito" during the week, but citizen activist on the weekend.
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Javier Nart interviewed and got to know individuals who participated in most of the important world conflicts between 1977 and 1992.
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Javier Nart covered the Nicaraguan Revolution that led to the 1979 ouster of dictator Anastasio Somoza by the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
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Javier Nart developed a particularly strong relationship with the Palestinians and the Fatah resistance forces.
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Javier Nart speaks of the barbarity of war, that when images are shown to the public, it can cause them to lose support for a war they had previously liked, like the Vietnam War.
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Javier Nart is very concerned with remote-controlled drones making serious casualties seem like a video game.
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Javier Nart put out two more Viajes, Viaje al Mekong.
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Javier Nart published his most recent book, Nunca la nada fue tanto in the summer of 2016, that seeks to explain why he participated in so many conflicts.
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Nonetheless, Javier Nart did recognize the necessity of armed struggle against the Somoza oligarchy in Nicaragua.
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In 2002 Javier Nart was one of the adherents to the Manifiesto contra la Muerte del Espiritu y de la Tierra, one of the attempts to thrust the ideas of the so-called Spanish Nouvelle Droite.
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On 22 February 2014 Javier Nart was elected in primaries to head the candidacy of Citizens for the European elections of that year.
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Javier Nart renovated his seat the European Parliament at the 2019 European election, running 5th in the Cs list.
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On 24 June 2019, Javier Nart renounced to his role as member of the Cs' national committee, after a voting in which the later re-affirmed in its veto to negotiate with the PSOE.
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Months later, in September 2019, Javier Nart communicated the party the cancellation of his membership, although he would remain as MEP, defending the platform the party ran vis-a-vis the 2019 election.
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Javier Nart explained he left the party because of the "absolute disagreement with establishing a single subjective alliance and objective one ".
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Javier Nart led the European Union's monitoring mission during the 2020 Ghanaian general election.
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Javier Nart is very supportive of a united Europe and considers the European Union a necessity.
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Javier Nart believes that a European project that guarantees the member states peace, democracy, and social welfare is too important to allow Euroskeptics to have their way.