Angelika Mlinar
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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Angelika Mlinar 29 June 1970 Sittersdorf, Austria |
| Political party |
 Austrian:NEOS – The New Austria  EU:Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
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Angelika Rosa Mlinar (* July 29, 1970 in Altendorf/Stara vas, Carinthia) is an Austrian lawyer, businesswoman, politician (NEOS – The New Austria) and a member of the Slovenian ethnic minority in Carinthia. Since 2014, she has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Beginning in 1988 through 1993, Angelika Mlinar studied legal science at the University in Salzburg (Austria) and in the year 1994/5 completed her masters at the American University in Washington, D.C.. Back in Salzburg, she finished her doctoral degree with her dissertation on the topic of "Women's rights as human rights". She gained first political experience as an assistant in the office of Friedhelm Frischenschlager in the European Parliament. The topics she covered included human rights and the judicial system, as well as European cooperation with Criminal law.
Afterwards, Angelika Mlinar worked as Project Assistant and then Project Leader in different legal fields with various European institutions and delegations. At the same time, she independently set up her own business in Ljubljana (Slovenia) called Angelski keksi (Angel cookies) and worked as Program Manager at the International Center for Development and Migration Politics (ICMPD) in Vienna.
Mlinar ran the political campaign for Carinthia's leading candidate Rudi Vouk for the Austrian parliamentary elections in 2008. In 2009 she was elected chair (national spokesperson) of the Liberal Forum party (LIF). In May 2010 she became the leading candidate of LIF for the Vienna provincial assembly and for the elections at the Municipal Council on October 10, 2010. In addition, from May 2009 until July 2010 she was the general secretary of the National Council of Carinthian Slovenians.
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