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Vladimír Bilčík

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Vladimír Bilčík
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Slovakia
In office
2 July 2019 – 15 July 2024
Parliamentary groupEuropean People´s Party
Personal details
Born (1975-05-27) 27 May 1975 (age 49)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Political partyDemocrats (since 2019)
Children2
EducationSwarthmore College (BA)
St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil)
Comenius University (DPhil)
WebsiteOfficial website
NicknameMr. Serbia

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]

Political career

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Vladimír Bilčík in the European Parliament
Vladimír Bilčík in the European Parliament

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]

References

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  1. ^ "Noví europoslanci: PS a Spolu majú štyroch, Smer má troch, kotlebovci dvoch". Trend (in Slovak). 27 May 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  2. ^ Barber, Tony (17 June 2020). "Serbia's path to EU strewn with missteps and some members' doubts". Financial Times.
  3. ^ "LIBE Democracy, Fundamental Rights and Monitoring Group (2019–2024)" (PDF). European Parliament. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Conference of Presidents" (PDF). European Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Introducing the Members of the Delegation". European Parliament. Archived from the original on 1 August 2023.
  6. ^ Banks, Martin (29 April 2021). "MEPs call for killers of Daphne Caruana Galizia to be brought to justice". The Parliament Magazine.
  7. ^ "V.Bilčík bude tieňovým spravodajcom pre európsky zákon o slobode médií". Teraz (in Slovak). 7 February 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  8. ^ Ghafori, Shagofah (1 May 2023). "CEPS-SWP High-Level Group on bolstering EU Democracy". CEPS.
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