Vladimír Bilčík
Vladimír Bilčík (born 27 May 1975 in Bratislava) is a Slovak university lecturer and politician of the TOGETHER - Civic Democracy political party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. For the European Parliament elections in 2019, Bilčík ran as a leader of TOGETHER - Civic Democracy political party in a back-then Coalition Progressive Slovakia & TOGETHER - Civic Democracy. He got 26,202 preferential votes in total. Early career. Prior entering the European Parliament, Bilčík worked as a university lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava. Furthermore , he worked as the Head of the Research Program "European Union" in the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) for almost 20 years. Bilčík was regularly publishing about the issues concerning reformation and external relations of the European Union. He was providing expert comments on the European politics and the progress and consequences of Brexit in the Slovak Republic and abroad. Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present. In the European Parliament, Bilčík is a member of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP), the parliament's biggest group. Bilčík has been a member of the Committee on Constitutional  Affairs (AFCO), where he serves as his parliamentary group's coordinator; the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), within which he engages in the protection of the rule of law, the fight against misinformation, and the hybrid threats; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), where he serves as the Parliament's rapporteur for relations with Serbia. He is part of the Democracy, Rule of Law & Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group. In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union. Since 2021, he has been part of the  Parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe. In addition to his committee assignments, Bilčík chairs the Parliament's delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. In 2021, Bilčík negotiated a parliamentary resolution calling for the murderers of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia to be brought to justice.