Czech Republic: Czech Pirate Party EU Party: European Pirate Party EU Parliament group: Greens/EFA
Alma mater
Masaryk University
Marcel Kolaja (born 29 June 1980 in Moravská Třebová) is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a Czech Pirate Party politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2019 election and Quaestor of the European Parliament since 2022. He is a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs.
Kolaja has been a member of the Czech Pirate Party since 2010 and the Vice-President of the Czech Pirate Party since 2022. From 2019 to 2022, he served as Vice-President of the European Parliament. He serves as Quaestor of the Parliament since 2022, being responsible for overseeing the administrative and financial matters of the institution. Kolaja 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 of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus (PEGA), 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.[1]
MarcelKolaja (born 29 June 1980 in Moravská Třebová) is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a Czech Pirate Party...
Tošenovský and Veronika Vrecionová) Pirates: 13.95% of votes and 3 seats (MarcelKolaja, Markéta Gregorová and Mikuláš Peksa), STAN-TOP 09 joint list: 11.65%...
candidate MarcelKolaja in the 2019 European Parliament election, the party ran on a common platform with the European Pirate Party. Kolaja was elected...
for Prague 8 since 2018 Adéla Šípová, Senator for Kladno since 2020 MarcelKolaja, MEP for Czech Republic since 2019 Markéta Gregorová, MEP for Czech...
in Luxembourg in January 2024, the European Pirate Party nominated MarcelKolaja and Anja Hirschel as lead candidates. On 27 November 2023, Volt Europa...
Breyer, is in the Greens–European Free Alliance group. Together with MarcelKolaja, Markéta Gregorová and Mikuláš Peksa from the Czech Pirate Party they...
needed] The Pirates are led by MarcelKolaja. The party is not currently represented in the European Parliament. Kolaja stated that it could join Alliance...
in Luxembourg, the European Pirate Party (PPEU) officially nominated MarcelKolaja (Czech Pirate Party) and Anja Hirschel (German Pirate Party) as top...
election, Reda was succeeded by Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party Germany), MarcelKolaja, Markéta Gregorová, and Mikuláš Peksa (Czech Pirate Party). In 2019...
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