page_title: Antonio López-Istúriz White
section_title: Transatlantic relations
hierarchical_section_title: Antonio López-Istúriz White / Transatlantic relations
caption_attribution_description: Español: López-Istúriz junto a Paul Ryan, Presidente del Congreso de los Estados Unidos
context_page_description: Antonio López-Istúriz White is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Spain. He is a member of the People's Party, member party of the European People's Party. He has served as the Secretary General of the European People's Party since March 2002.
  He is also a member of the executive committee of the Spanish People's Party and member of the Committee of Rights and Guarantees, Executive Secretary of the Centrist Democrat International and Secretary-Treasurer of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the think-tank of the EPP.
context_section_description: López-Istúriz has always been involved in trans-Atlantic relations, As a member of the respective delegation in the European Parliament and also as Secretary-General of the European People’s Party, he travels frequently to the United States and holds meetings with politicians and other civil society actors On July 2018, he spoke in front of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), a caucus of conservative members of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives.
  Besides holding several meetings with late Senator McCain, who was also the president of the International Republican Institute, López-Istúriz has met with republicans such as Senator Marco Rubio and congressmen Paul Ryan, Chris Smith, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Díaz-Balart. Along with the latest two and with former congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart, he has developed initiatives and activities in favor of Cuban democracy, a subject about which he is extremely passionate.
  He has also met democrat representatives, such as congressman Albio Sires and congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a number of Presidents of the Democratic National Committee, and with some advisors of the President Obama such as Rick Holtzapple (who was Head of European Affairs of the White House), Mike Froman (Obama’s advisor for security affairs) and Miriam Sapiro (Responsible for commerce affairs at the Obama´s Administration). In 2016, he attended the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia  witnessing  the nomination of Hillary Clinton.
caption: López-Istúriz with Paul Ryan, President of the United States Congress
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