José Maria Siles

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Brussels, 2008
Brussels, 2008

José-María Siles is a Spanish journalist, expert on international relations. He was a foreign correspondent in Paris, Bonn, Rabat, Berlin, New York and Brussels.

He worked in Radio France Internationale in Paris and for the National Television of Spain in Germany, where he witnessed the last years of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

He was a war correspondent during the siege of Sarajevo and the reunification of the city after the Dayton Agreement and he covered the rise of Islamic extremism in the Maghreb countries and the beginning of the decolonization process in the West Sahara as TVE Rabat correspondent.

In 1994 he served as director of Canal Sur Televisión, the Public Broadcaster of Andalusia. After this experience in Seville, he was TVE US Bureau Chief in New York and Washington. As European Affairs correspondent in Brussels he informed about the arrival of the euro, the enlargement of the Union and the new peacemaker and peace builder role of NATO under the umbrella of the United Nations.

José-María Siles is a member of Team Europe, independent network of experts on European affairs.

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