Josef Zieliec

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Josef Zieliec (born April 28, 1946 in Moscow ) is a Czech politician . From 1992 to 1997 he was Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic and from 2004 to 2009 Member of the European Parliament for the SNK Evropští democé party .

education

Zieliec studied economics at the University of Economics in Prague and obtained an aspirantur (CSc.) At the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Political and professional activity

After the dissolution of the Citizens 'Forum in 1991, he was one of the founders of the Democratic Citizens' Party (ODS) and became its vice-chairman. Before the break-up of Czechoslovakia , he became a minister in the newly established Czech Ministry for International Relations and accompanied the negotiations on the dismembration . Until 1997 he served in the cabinets of Václav Klaus as Minister for International Relations and Foreign Minister. He contributed significantly to the creation of the German-Czech declaration .

In the autumn of 1997, when the ODS was shaken by a financial scandal, Zieliec resigned from all offices and was one of the first significant members to leave the party. For a few years he withdrew into the private sector.

In 2000 he successfully ran as a non-party candidate on the list of the coalition of four for the Senate elections . In 2004 he moved into the European Parliament for the SNK Evropští democé and worked on the Foreign Affairs Committee. After the Senate elections in 2006, when his party was unsuccessful in the Czech Republic, he resigned from all party offices.

Zieliec was interested in running for the office of President of the Czech Republic , for which elections were due in 2008. However, it was not set up and played no role in the media in the run-up to the election.

After he left the European Parliament in 2009, he ran unsuccessfully in the Senate elections in 2010, this time again as a non-party on the list of the Věci veřejné party .

Zieliec currently teaches political science at the New York University branch in Prague.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exministr zahraničí entsiec chce být prezidentem (Aktuálně.cz, August 6, 2007)
  2. ↑ Volby 2010
  3. ↑ Courses - Fall 2012 ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Zieliec, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow