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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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"The past two weeks in the European Parliament have been dominated by the hearings of each of the incoming European Commissioners. It has been an interesting experience, with many behind-the-scenes discussions on the candidates and their performances during the three hour grilling each one had to undergo.
Petr Jezek took part in the hearings of the Commissioners who would be dealing with Economic and Financial affairs and Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
On Tuesday 30 September, we heard from the Greek Commissioner-designate, Dimitros Avramopolos, who will be dealing with Migration and Home Affairs. Mr Jezek questioned him on how he would address the growing chasm between policy makers and citizens, and how he felt we could best deal with populist movements which use anti-immigration rhetoric in order to win votes. Watch Mr Avrampoulos' answers below:
On Wednesday 1 September, Lord Hill, the British Commissioner-designate, discussed his portfolio with parliamentarians. Prior to the hearing there was concern that as a Brit, Lord Hill would not represent the European interest and that it was dangerous to put someone in charge of Eurozone matters such as Banking Union who was not from a Eurozone member state. During his hearing, Lord Hill did manage to overcome some of the scepticism towards him in terms of acting in the European interest. However, he failed to demonstrate a strong grasp of his portfolio. For this reason MEPs of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee decided that he should be recalled to face a second hearing on 7th October. Following this second hearing, Hill was approved by the members of the ECON committee.
Watch Mr JEZEK's interventions in these hearings here:
Mr JEZEK also took part in commissioner designate MOSCOVICI's hearing on the 2d of October and asked Pierre Moscovici how he sees his cooperation with the member of the ECON committee of the European Parliament. Former French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici was also endorsed last Wednesday by the European Parliement, after having given some further details, in writing, on the hierarchical organisation major cause for concern over the portfolio assigned to France's Commissioner and on the situation of the French budget, which was also a major cause for concern over the portfolio assigned to France's Commissioner.
Slovenian liberal Alenka Bratusek, chosen for the position of Vice President of energy, is the only candidate to have been rejected. The Slovenian government nominated Violeta Bulc, the Slovenian minister for development, strategic projects and cohesion, as the new Commissioner designate for the portfolio.
The European Parliament will vote on the whole of the Commission in plenary on the 22d of October.