Vladimír Bilčík

Vladimír Bilčík (born 27 May 1975 in Bratislava)[3] is a Slovak politician, a member of the Presidency at TOGETHER - Civic Democracy political party, an expert in the field of European Politics and International Relations and a university lecturer. Currently, he is the Member of the European Parliament. For the European Parliament elections in 2019,[4] Vladimír Bilčík ran as a leader of TOGETHER - Civic Democracy political party in a back-then Coalition Progressive Slovakia & TOGETHER - Civic Democracy. He got 26 202 preferential votes in total.

Vladimír Bilčík in the European Parliament

Vladimír Bilčík

MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Slovakia
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
Born (1975-05-27) 27 May 1975
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
NationalitySlovak
Political partyTOGETHER – Civic Democracy
Children2
ResidenceBratislava
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Professionuniversity lecturer, scientist, MEP
Websitehttps://vladimirbilcik.eu/

Early career

Prior entering the European Parliament, Bilčík worked as a university lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava. Furthermore, he worked as the Head of the Research Program European Union in the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) for almost 20 years. Bilčík was regularly publishing about the issues concerning reformation and external relations of the European Union. He was providing expert comments on the European politics and the progress and consequences of Brexit in the Slovak Republic and abroad.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present
Vladimír Bilčík in the European Parliament

In the European Parliament, Bilčík is a member of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP), the parliament's biggest group.

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.[5] In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union.[6]

In addition to his committee assignments, Bilčík chairs the Parliament's delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee.

Education
  • The Armand Hammer United World College, Montezuma, USA. International High School graduated with the International Baccalaureate (1991-1993)
  • Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, USA. Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics and Political Science with focus on Public Politics and International Relations (1993-1999)
  • University of Oxford, St Antony's College, Oxford, UK. Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in European Politics (1997-1999)
  • D.Phil. (PhD.), Comenius University. Dissertation thesis in the field of Political Theory (2007)

Publications
  • The European Union Today: trends and relevance for the Slovak Republic / Vladimír Bilčík, Martin Bruncko - editors. - 2., supplemented edition. - Bratislava ; Bratislava: Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Institute for Public Affairs, 2003. - 198 p. - ISBN 80-7165-396-9.

References
  1. "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197771/VLADIMIR_BILCIK/home
  4. https://www.etrend.sk/ekonomika/novi-europoslanci-ps-a-spolu-maju-styroch-smer-troch-kotlebovci-dvoch.html.
  5. Tony Barber (June 17, 2020), Serbia’s path to EU strewn with missteps and some members’ doubts Financial Times.
  6. Members of the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union European Parliament, press release of July 9, 2020.
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