Angelika Mlinar

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Angelika Mlinar during the 2014 EU election campaign

Angelika Rosa Mlinar (born June 29, 1970 in Altendorf / Stara vas , Carinthia ) is an Austrian - Slovenian lawyer and politician ( NEOS , SAB ). From December 19, 2019 to March 2020, she was Slovenian Cohesion Minister in the Šarec cabinet .

Life

Angelika Mlinar attended the Grammar School for Slovenes , later she studied from 1988 to 1993 law at the University of Salzburg and then completed her master's degree at the American University in Washington, DC Back in Salzburg, she completed her doctoral studies and a doctorate in 1996 on the topic "Women's rights as human rights ". She gained her first practical experience in political work as Friedhelm Frischenschlager's assistant in the European Parliament . Her main areas of work were human rights and justice, as well as European cooperation in criminal law.

Angelika Mlinar then worked as a project assistant and later as a project manager in various legal areas with numerous European institutions and delegations. At the same time, she started her own company in 2005 (the Ljubljana- based biscuit manufacturer Angelski keksi ) and also worked as a program manager for the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Vienna.

politics

Angelika Mlinar with Matthias Strolz and Beate Meinl-Reisinger (2013)

For the 2008 National Council election , she led the election campaign of the liberal Carinthian top candidate Rudi Vouk . In 2009 she was elected party leader ("Federal Spokeswoman") of the Liberal Forum . A year later she was nominated as the top candidate of the LIF for the Vienna state and municipal council elections on October 10, 2010. Furthermore, from May 2009 to July 2010 she was Secretary General of the Council of Carinthian Slovenes ('Narodni svet koroških Slovencev').

In the course of the National Council election in 2013 , in which the Liberal Forum had entered into an electoral alliance with the NEOS - Das Neue Österreich party , she was elected member and deputy chairwoman of the NEOS-LIF parliamentary club. After LIF merged with NEOS in January 2014 to form a party under the name NEOS - Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum and subsequently dissolved as an independent party, Mlinar became the deputy chairwoman of the new party and president of the NEOS Lab party academy.

On February 15, 2014, Angelika Mlinar emerged as the NEOS top candidate for the 2014 European elections from the party's internal pre-election process. She ran for a seat as a member of the European Parliament at number one on the party list , which she was able to win.

In May 2018, she announced that she would no longer run for the European elections in Austria in 2019 . In March 2019, her candidacy for Stranka Alenke Bratušek (SAB) in the 2019 European elections in Slovenia was announced.

In June 2019 she was elected Vice-President of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN / FUEN), President Loránt Vincze was confirmed in office.

From December 19, 2019 to March 2020, she was the Slovenian Cohesion Minister in the Šarec cabinet . Previously, she received Slovenian citizenship while retaining Austrian citizenship. On January 27, 2020, Prime Minister Marjan Šarec announced his resignation, the previous government remained in office until a new cabinet was appointed. In March 2020, the Šarec cabinet was replaced by the Janša III cabinet under Prime Minister Janez Janša .

Work in the European Parliament

On July 1, 2014 Angelika Mlinar moved from the National Council to the European Parliament as a member of the European Parliament . She belongs to the ALDE group and is a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality , as well as the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the delegations for relations with the Mashreq countries and the People's Republic of China. She is also an alternate member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and of the delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway.

In the course of her work as a member of the European Parliament , Angelika Mlinar speaks out for a more cohesive and stronger Europe and is particularly committed to strengthening human rights and the rights of women .

After the European elections in Austria in 2019 , she left the European Parliament.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Angelika Mlinar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Angelika Mlinar appointed Minister of Slovenia orf.at, December 20, 2019, accessed December 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ Michael Völker: With biscuits and perseverance into politics - Inland - derStandard.at ›Inland. In: derStandard.at . March 4, 2012, accessed March 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Amnesty International : Books: Women's rights as human rights. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Abstract in the ai-Journal, June 1998. Retrieved on April 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Dr. Angelika Mlinar - Federal Spokesperson ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on the Liberal Forum website. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
  5. ^ NR: First Carinthian Slovenian since 1999 moves in , krone.at, October 1, 2013
  6. ↑ EU election: Angelika Mlinar as Neos top candidate . Article on derStandard.at from February 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ derStandard.at: Next exit from the Neos: Mlinar does not stand for EU election . Article dated May 18, 2018, accessed May 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Mlinar is running for the Slovenian Liberal Party . Article dated March 29, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
  9. ↑ Vincze remains at the head of FUEN. June 17, 2019, accessed July 14, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ex-NEOS MP Mlinar becomes dual citizen on ORF from December 13, 2019 accessed on November 13, 2019
  11. ↑ Ex-Neos MP Mlinar wants to run for new elections in Slovenia in the standard of February 13, 2020 accessed on March 14, 2020
  12. ^ Slovenian opposition leader Janša elected as the new head of government. In: DerStandard.at . March 2, 2020, accessed March 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mlinar, Angelica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mlinar, Angelika Rosa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Slovenian lawyer and politician (NEOS, SAB)
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Altendorf / Stara vas , Carinthia