Marcel Kolaja
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Marcel Kolaja (born 29 June 1980 in Moravská Třebová) is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a Czech Pirate Party politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2019 election and Quaestor of the European Parliament since 2022. He is a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs.
Marcel Kolaja | |
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Quaestor of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 20 January 2022 | |
Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
Vice-President of the European Parliament | |
In office 3 July 2019 – 18 January 2022 | |
President | David Sassoli Roberta Metsola (Acting) |
First vice chairman of the Czech Pirate Party | |
Assumed office 8 January 2022 | |
Co-chairman of the PPI | |
In office 13 March 2011 – 30 November 2011 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1980-06-29) 29 June 1980 (age 43) Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) |
Political party | Czech Republic: Czech Pirate Party EU Party: European Pirate Party EU Parliament group: Greens/EFA |
Alma mater | Masaryk University |
Kolaja has been a member of the Czech Pirate Party since 2010 and the Vice-President of the Czech Pirate Party since 2022. From 2019 to 2022, he served as Vice-President of the European Parliament. He serves as Quaestor of the Parliament since 2022, being responsible for overseeing the administrative and financial matters of the institution. Kolaja graduated from the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno.
In the European Parliament, in addition to being a Bureau member, he engages in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), and the Special Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus (PEGA), as well as in the delegations for relations with the United States (D-US) and with India (D-IN).
Topics related to the functioning of society in the digital age are his main focus. Marcel Kolaja stands for open technologies, freedom on the Internet, independence of media, transparency, and a united Europe.[1]