Markéta Gregorová

Markéta Gregorová
Gregorová in 2019
Chairwoman of the European Pirate Party
In office 1 December 2018 – 11 November 2019
Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Personal details
Born	(1993-01-14) 14 January 1993 (age 31) Most, Czech Republic
Political party	Czech Republic: Czech Pirate Party EU Party: European Pirate Party EU Parliament group: Greens/EFA
Alma mater	Masaryk University

Markéta Gregorová (born 14 January 1993) is a Czech politician. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 election, representing the Czech Pirate Party.^[1][2] Gregorová serves as the Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, and is a member of the Committee on International Trade and the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation.

Early work

Gregorová was the third-ranked candidate in the 2014 European Parliament election, but was not elected.^[3] She was the president of the European Pirate Party from December 2018.^[4]

European Parliament

Election

Gregorová co-created the 2019 common electoral program for the European pirate parties that was signed in Luxembourg in February. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election, as the second candidate on the Pirate Party list.^[5][6] Gregorová serves as the Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, and is a member of the Committee on International Trade and the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation.^[7]

Among her priorities are transparency in negotiations of European Union free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and addressing EU involvement in international arms sales to war zones.^[8]

Committee assignments

Gregorová is a member of the following Committees of the European Parliament:^[9]

• Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, Vice-Chair
• European Parliament Committee on International Trade
• Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation
• Delegation to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Partnership Committee, the EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association Committee

See also

• European Neighbourhood Policy
• Marcel Kolaja
• Mikuláš Peksa

References

External links

• Media related to Markéta Gregorová at Wikimedia Commons
• Markéta Gregorová on Czech Pirate Party website
• Markéta Gregorová on the European Parliament website