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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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Members of the European Parliament and other distinguished guests viewed an exhibition of photographs by Czech photographer Stanislav Krupař entitled “Escape to Europe” in Strasbourg this week.
The exhibition was hosted by Petr Jezek on the same day as the New European agenda on migration was debated in plenary session.
Krupař's series of photographs, which won the first prize in the “Report” category of the Czech Press Photo Award last year, depicts an attempted escape of Syrian refugees from Egypt to Sicily across the Mediterranean.
Krupař, together with a journalist from the German newspaper Die Zeit, Wolfgang Bauer, went undercover and joined the refugee group posing as immigrants from the Caucasus. Their journey however ended early on one of the islands off the Egyptian shores after they were discovered by an Egyptian navy patrol.