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Traineeship opportunity at Petr Ježek’s Brussels office

Petr Ježek, Czech member of European Parliament (ALDE) is searching for a trainee for his Brussels office. This traineeship would suit someone with...

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Goodbye to tax havens? Interview for France 24

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Traineeship opportunity at Petr Ježek’s Brussels office

Petr Ježek, Czech member of European Parliament (ANO, ALDE) is searching for a trainee for his Brussel’s office.

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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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New terror threats call for new responses

“I believe member states’ security services try to do their best in their own countries. But the new, unprecedented level of terrorist threat in our connected world, and especially in the EU, requires new approaches,” Petr Ježek told the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday. 

In a debate on anti-terrorism measures that are being considered after a series of attacks in Europe, MEP Ježek said that in some places, the situation had been overlooked and developed in  such a  way that some people can be easy targets for radicalisation.

“The attacks were committed also by home grown terrorists. To cope with this environment and change it, it represents a gigantic challenge for some member states and their municipal (and other) authorities,” the MEP remarked.

Petr Ježek, who follows the draft anti-terrorism directive as ALDE shadow, also made a case for sharing information between the security services of EU member states and with the union’s allies.

“It is also our role to work further on it, including on common definition of terrorist offences, which we are currently working on in the context of the directive on combatting terrorism. No country can make it on its own. The EU with its allies can together,” Petr Ježek concluded.

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