Libor RouÄek
Libor Rouček ( born September 4, 1954 in Kladno ) is a Czech politician of the Social Democratic Party, CSSD. Since the 2004 European parliamentary elections he is a member of the European Parliament since the 2009 European election times also Vice President of the Parliament and now Vice President of its Transportation Frank.
Life
During his doctoral studies at the University of Vienna in the Department of Political Science and Sociology with an emphasis in International Relations (1978-1984) Rouček 1980 began working as a documentary with the Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ). In 1987, he was a scholarship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, 1988 to 1991, he worked at the U.S. international broadcaster Voice of America. 1991-92 after all, he was a researcher at the Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House) in London.
1998 Rouček spokesman for the Czech Social Democratic Party spokesman CSSD and selected in the same year into office CSSD government under Miloš Zeman. He was elected to the Czech Chamber of Deputies in 2002, and Deputy Chairman of the Regional Council of the CSSD in Středočeský kraj. In the House of Representatives, he was Deputy Chairman of the CSSD Group, the Europe Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. In addition, he headed from 2003 to 2009 responsible for foreign policy, party Committee of the CSSD.
In preparation for the Czech EU accession Rouček had from 2003 a mandate as an observer in the European Parliament. In the European elections in 2004 he was finally elected to the European Parliament, spending his seat in the Czech Chamber of Deputies on. In Parliament he joined the Socialist Group and was a member and from 2006 to 2009 first deputy chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In the European elections in the Czech Republic in 2009, he again won a mandate and was subsequently elected as Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
In addition Rouček since 2005 Chairman of the Union of European Federalists in the Czech Republic.