Gordan Jandroković (born 2 August 1967) is a Croatian diplomat and politician serving as Speaker of the

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since 2017. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2008 to 2011, and as

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from 2010 to 2011 in the cabinets of prime ministers

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and

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. Born in

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, Jandroković graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering in 1991 and obtained a

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from the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1993.Biography
at the Croatian Government website

Political career

Jandroković was elected a member of the

for six consecutive times: in parliamentary elections in

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

and

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

. During his parliamentary career, Jandroković, among other functions, served as the chairman of the Committee on the Economy, Development and Renovation from 2003 to 2004, and as the chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee from 2004 to 2007. In the same period he served as the chairman of the Delegation to the Croatia – EU Joint Parliamentary Committee. In the 7th term of the Croatian Parliament, from 2011 to 2015, Jandroković was the deputy chairman firstly of the European Integration Committee and then of the European Affairs Committee, founded upon Croatia's entry into the

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. He was elected the chairman of the European Affairs Committee on 23 January 2016. Following the extraordinary parliamentary elections in September 2016, he was elected the Deputy Speaker of the Croatian Parliament on 14 October 2016. As per a post-election agreement, set up in 2016, between the two parties in the governing coalition: the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ; led by Prime Minister

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(Most; led by

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, who would later be elected speaker of Parliament), Jandroković was supposed assume the speakership some time in 2018 (the middle of the current legislative term, due to end in 2020). However, due to the breakup of the coalition between the HDZ and the Most, Božo Petrov resigned as speaker on 4 May 2017, while Jandroković was voted into office as the new speaker the day later. Jandroković was re-elected as speaker on 22 July 2020 following the 2020 election.

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