Mojca Kleva (born March 30, 1976) is a Slovene political scientist and

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born in

Koper Koper (; it, Capodistria, hr, Kopar) is the fifth largest city in Slovenia. Located in the Istrian region in the southwestern part of the country, approximately five kilometres () south of the border with Italy and 20 kilometres () from Triest ...

(

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). On May 9 2011 she became a

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replacing

Zoran Thaler Zoran Thaler (born ) is a Slovenian politician and businessman. He is a former Slovenian foreign minister and a former member of the European Parliament. Political career He was born in Kranj in former Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia). He graduate ...

who resigned from the position due to accusations regarding corruption.Dnevnik.si - Zoran Thaler je odstopil z mesta evropskega poslanca
/ref> She is a member of Social Democrats, center-left wing political party in

Biography

Mojca Kleva graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in

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in 2002 and later acquired master's degree also in political science in 2006. After her studies Kleva was following the EU accession process of

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and

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at the

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Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. In 2004 she returned to

where she became an advisor in the

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, working on areas of

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and

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. In 2009 she became a permanent representative of the

to the

. In May 2011 Mojca Kleva replaced

as a member of the European Parliament within S&D (Group of the

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). Between 1999 and 2009 Mojca Kleva was a member

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, she also actively participated and led network of non-governmental organizations from the field of

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between 2007 and 2009.

Member of the European Parliament

* Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D), Member * Committee on Regional Development, Member * Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Substitute * Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, Substitute * Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, Vice-president * Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, Member * Delegation to EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee, Substitute

References

External links

Official page of the party

Official page of the MEP
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kleva, Mojca 1976 births Living people University of Ljubljana alumni Politicians from Koper Social Democrats (Slovenia) MEPs