Carlos Carnero, Spanish lawyer and politician
Carlos Carnero González (born 24 November 1961, Madrid) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. On 7 December 2006, he was appointed a member of the presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES).
Carnero is a member of the Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee and is the spokesman for the PES Group of the European Parliament's Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA). He is also a substitute member of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and Petitions committee. Carlos Carnero is a member of the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries; the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly; and the delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
He is a member of the PSOE Council on International Relations, where he directs the Working Group on Mediterranean Affairs. He was a member of the PSOE Federal Committee from 2001 to 2004.
He is also a Member of the Steering Committee of the European Movement.
Carlos Canero was the Nueva Izquierda European Policy Secretary (1998-2001) and IU External Policy Secretary (1992-1997).
He was the Chairman of the Parliament's team of observers at the parliamentary elections in Lebanon.
He is a Member of the Federalist Intergroup for the European Constitution.
He is a member of the editorial team of the Spanish political review 'Temas'.
He is also a member of the Movement for Peace, Disarmament and Liberty and Association for Democratic Solidarity with Equatorial Guinea. He is a Member of the Spanish Union CCOO (the Workers' Committees).
On 5 March 2020 Carnero took office as member of the Assembly of Madrid, covering the vacant seat left by Llanos Castellanos, appointed as new chairwoman of Patrimonio Nacional.