Jan Zahradil

Jan Zahradil (born on 30 March 1963 in Prague)is a Czech politician and
Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party,Member of the Bureau of the European Democrats and sits onthe European Parliament's Committee on Development.

He is a substitute for the
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, substitute for theDelegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee. Jan Zahradil believes that both opinions should be heard about the climate change. He active promoted The Great Global Warming Swindle and warns against expensive actions that would bring no results. [http://www.ods.cz/il1/zpravy/prispevek.php?ID=5271]

Education

* 1987: Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague

Career

* 1988-1992: Research fellow
* 1992-1998: Member of the Federal Assembly, 1995-1997 foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister
* 1998-2004: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic [http://www.psp.cz/cgi-bin/eng]
* 1998: Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
* 1999: Vice-Chairman of the Committee for European Integration of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
* 2002: Representative of the Czech Republic at the Convention on the Future of Europe
* 2001: Vice-Chairman of ODS (Civic Democratic Party)
* 2002-2004: First Vice-Chairman of ODS
* 2004-now Head of the Czech national delegation in the EPP-ED Group

"See also:" European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)

External links

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* [http://www.ods.cz/eu/ Jan Zahradil, Head of ODS Group in the EP]
* [http://www.zahradil.eu/ Jan Zahradil website]
* [http://www.ods.cz/eng/ Civic Democratic Party] (in English)