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Petr Ježek
Born in Prague in 1965. A graduate of Prague’s University of Economics, Petr Ježek joined his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as a diplomat. For some ten years, he held relatively high posts related to the country’s ties with the EU, e.g. heading the Foreign Ministry’s European Integration Department and serving as Deputy State Secretary for European Affairs. He also worked as chief of staff of then Czech Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla. In 2014, Petr Ježek was elected Member of the European Parliament on the ballot of the ANO 2011 party.
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Europe is facing its most serious migration crisis since the second world war. Last year around 280,000 irregular migrants came to Europe by sea.
In the first quarter of this year, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees estimates that 1700 died at sea. This is a huge increase compared to the estimated 96 people who died during the same period last year.
Hundreds of thousands of people set off for this journey with the aspiration for a better life in Europe. Stanislav Krupař, a renowned Czech photographer and the recipient of several international awards, together with Wolfgang Bauer, reporter for German newspaper Die Zeit, joined a group of Syrian refugees who were trying to reach Europe from Egypt last April.
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