Sergei Kozlík

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Sergej Kozlík (born July 27, 1950 in Bratislava ) is a Slovak politician . He was Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Slovakia from 1994 to 1998 and a member of the European Parliament for the conservative party ĽS-HZDS from 2004 to 2014 .

Life

Kozlík graduated from high school in 1968. He graduated with a degree in business mathematics in 1974 at the Bratislava Business School , Faculty of Business Planning. Kozlík worked for the Slovak Awards Office from 1974 to 1987 as a specialist in industry awards. He then worked in the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Socialist Republic as a specialist for industrial awards (1987–1990). As head of the executive department, he was employed by the Slovak Cartel Office from 1990 to 1992. As head of the economic policy department from 1992 to 1993 in the Government Office of the Slovak Republic.

After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Kozlík was Deputy Prime Minister in the governments of Vladimír Mečiar from 1993 to 1994, responsible for the economy, and from 1994 to 1998 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic. He was deputy chairman of Mečiar's party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), where he was responsible for economics from 1993 to 2002. Kozlík was a member of the Slovak National Council, member of the National Council Committee for Budget, Finance and Currency (1998-2004).

From 2004 to 2014 Kozlík was a member of the European Parliament . In the 2004–2009 legislative period he was a non-attached member of the Committee on Budgets and a delegate to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. In the legislative period 2009-2014 he sat in the liberal ALDE parliamentary group , was again a member of the budget committee and a delegate in the committee for parliamentary cooperation between the EU and Russia. After the dissolution of the HZDS, in March 2014 he founded Strana Demokratického Slovenska (SDS), of which he was chairman and which received 1.49% of the vote in the 2014 European elections . The SDS renamed itself to Národná koalícia in 2015, and in 2018 Kozlík gave up the party chairmanship.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Sergej Kozlík in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
  2. Vznikla Strana Demokratického Slovenska , in: www.pravda.sk, from March 8, 2014.
  3. Zmena názvu: Zo Strany demokratického Slovenska Národná per koalícia. In: Glob sk , August 20, 2015.
  4. Bývalí politici HZDS a SNS majú stranu, s ktorou chcú konkurovať smerákom aj kotlebovcom. Takúto majú víziu. In: ParlamentnéListy.sk , May 16, 2018.