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Vladimír Bilčík
Slovak politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vladimír Bilčík (born 27 May 1975) is a Slovak university lecturer and politician of the Slovak party Democrats. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024. During the 2019 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Bilčík ran as the leader of Democrats, as part of a coalition with Progressive Slovakia. He got 26,202 preferential votes in total.[1]
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Bilčík has been a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), where he serves as his parliamentary group's coordinator; the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), within which he engages in the protection of the rule of law, the fight against misinformation, and the hybrid threats; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), where he serves as the Parliament's rapporteur for relations with Serbia.[2] Bilčík is part of the Democracy, Rule of Law & Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group.[3]
In 2020, Bilčík joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union.[4]
Since 2021, Bilčík has been part of the Parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe.[5] He later negotiated a parliamentary resolution calling for the murderers of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia to be brought to justice.[6]
As the EPP shadow rapporteur, Bilčík works on the European Media Freedom Act - an important piece of legislation which aims to protect media pluralism and independence in the EU.[7] Since 2023, he has been part of the Centre for European Policy Studies/Heinrich Böll Foundation High-Level Group on Bolstering EU Democracy, chaired by Kalypso Nicolaïdis.[8]
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