Miro Kovač

Miro Kovač (2012)

Miro Kovač (born September 20, 1968 in Split , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian diplomat and politician and former Croatian foreign minister during the reign of Tihomir Orešković from January 22 to October 19, 2016 and a member of the Christian Democratic Party belonging to the European People's Party (EPP) HDZ .

Professional career

He began his career in 1995 in the presidential office of the first President of the Republic of Croatia , Franjo Tuđman , first in his information service.

After 1999 at the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) in the subject History of International Relations with a thesis on the role of France in the establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia doctorate , had he moved to the Department for Euro-Atlantic integration.

In 2001 he entered the diplomatic service . After a post at the Croatian embassy in Brussels, he was transferred to the Croatian embassy in Paris in 2003. In 2004 he became a permanent state secretary in the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the leadership of Miomir Žužul . During the tenure of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (2005-2008) he was head of the diplomatic protocol. From 2008 to 2013 he was the Croatian ambassador to Germany .

Political career

In 2014, Kovač was appointed spokesman for international affairs by HDZ chairman Tomislav Karamarko . To this end, he was hired to lead Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović's election campaign for the 2014/15 presidential election .

After Grabar-Kitarović's election victory, Kovač played an important role in preparing for the 2015 parliamentary elections for the national-conservative "Patriotic Coalition" around the HDZ.

Croatian Foreign Minister

In the parliamentary elections on November 8, 2015, he was elected Sabor MP. Since January 22, 2016, he has been Minister for Foreign and European Affairs in Tihomir Orešković's cabinet . Zdravka Bušić , a well-known figure in the nationalist movement that has been publicly active against regional cooperation and who fosters the memory of her brother Zvonko Bušić , who has been convicted of terrorism, has been appointed Deputy Foreign Minister .

At the beginning of April 2016, Kovač met the Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz on a working visit in Vienna .

At the end of May 2016, Kovač visited the State of Israel . According to press reports, he claimed in a lecture there, “Croats and Jews have always had very good relationships, with the exception of the period during the Second World War; this was the consequence of the 'great games' [of the great powers], but we take responsibility ”. This formulation caused controversy.

Before and after taking office Kovač was four times guest of the right-wing journalists Velimir Bujanec , which he called " encyclopedists , reconnaissance aircraft " called.

After less than nine months in office, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković appointed Davor Stier as his successor after new elections .

After my time as Foreign Minister

Kovač also won a seat in parliament in the parliamentary elections on September 11, 2016 . There he is now chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Publications

• La France, la création du royaume "yougoslave" et la question croate, 1914-1929. 2001, ISBN 3-906766-48-9 (also Diss. Paris 1999)
  • Croatian translation: Francuska i hrvatsko pitanje. 2005, ISBN 953-238-003-5 .
• Refugee crisis in Europe: "Our capacities are finite" . Guest Post. In: Der Tagesspiegel . online, February 7, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Miro Kovač  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Page from Miro Kovač at the Sabor
• Biographical information ( memento of February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Croatian government

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mvep.hr
2. ↑ Official biography, biographical information ( Memento from February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ hdz.hr ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ HDZ website, September 4, 2014.
5. ↑ Z. Bušić: Hkv.hr , December 3, 2009 and June 16, 2015
6. ↑ Direktno.hr
7. ↑ bmeia.gv.at
8. ↑ Tportal.hr , May 30, 2016.
9. ↑ Novi list , June 1, 2016.
10. ↑ Danijel Majic: Velimir Bujanec - anniversary with a Hetzer. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. online, November 1, 2017; see also Vodeći ljudi HDZ-a nakon formiranja koalicije potrčali u studio omiljenom Bujancu: Prvi potez ove Vlade bit će podizanje velebnog spomenika braniteljima! , Slobodna Dalmacija online, December 24, 2015; Index.hr , June 18, 2015; Novosti , February 10, 2016; Telegram , February 10, 2016.
11. ↑ Bujica broadcast by Osjecka televizija: on January 12, 2015 , October 2, 2015 , December 23, 2015 and February 29, 2016 , see Siniša Malus, Miro Kovač iskopao novo dno , seebiz.eu, March 1, 2016.