Marcel Kolaja
Marcel Kolaja has been a member of the Czech Pirate Party since 2010. In 2019, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament and subsequently became Vice-President of the European Parliament. He graduated from the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno.
In the European Parliament, in addition to being a Bureau member, he engages in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age (AIDA), as well as in the delegations for relations with the United States (D-US) and with India (D-IN).
Topics related to the functioning of society in the digital age are his main focus. Marcel Kolaja stands for open technologies, freedom on the Internet, independence of media, transparency, and a united Europe.