Jana Hybášková | |
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Member of the European Parliament for Czech Republic |
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In office 2004–2009 |
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Ambassador of the European Union in Iraq | |
In office 2011–2015 |
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Ambassador of the European Union in Namibia | |
Assumed office 2015 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Prague |
26 June 1965
Political party | SNK European Democrats, European Democratic Party, European People's Party |
Jana Hybášková (born 26 June 1965 in Prague) is a Czech politician, diplomat and former Ambassador of the European Union in Iraq (2011–2015). From 2004 to 2009, she was a Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party. She was a chairwoman of the European Democratic Party (EDS). Since September 2015, she has been serving as the Ambassador of the European Union in Namibia.
As a Member of the European Parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a substitute on the Committee on Budgets and chairwoman of the European delegation for relations with Israel. Jana Hybášková is also a member of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy. She has been a strong critic of Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and has advocated closer relations between Israel and Europe.
She graduated in Arabic at Charles University, earning a doctorate in 1989, and worked at the Foreign Ministry of Czechoslovakia and then the Czech Republic from 1991 to 1997. She was Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Slovenia 1997–2001, and then in Qatar and Kuwait (2002–2004).
She is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, and the co-organizer (with Senator Martin Mejstřík) of its preceding conference. She co-sponsored the European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism on behalf of the European People's Party.