Jaromír Štětina

Jaromír Štětina MEP
Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2014
Senator from Prague 10
In office 13 November 2004 – 30 June 2014
Preceded by	Zuzana Roithová
Succeeded by	Ivana Cabrnochová
Personal details
Born	Prague, Czech Republic
Nationality	Czech
Political party	European People's Party
Website	jaromirstetina.cz

Jaromír Štětina (born April 6, 1943 in Prague) is a Czech journalist, writer and politician. He is known to most as a war correspondent from the conflict areas of the former Soviet Union. Since 2014, Štětina has served as a member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic.

During 1961-1967, Štětina studied at the University of Economics, Prague. In 1968, Štětina started working as a journalist for the newspaper Mladá Fronta, his work there coincided with the soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, during which the Soviet army seized control of Mladá Fronta. Štětina was subsequently fired due to his disagreement over the Warsaw Pact armies entering Czechoslovakia. After being fired from Mladá Fronta, Štětina worked as a geodesist, and while working, studied geology long-distance at Charles University in Prague, during which he organised 25 geologic or sport tours to Siberia and Asia. During the same years, Štětina wrote his most famous book, "S matyldou po Indu", on the topic of rafting.

In 1987 Štětina started engaging in public speakings. and In 1989, co-founded the syndicate of journalists, ultimately resuming his work as a journalist, at the re-established newspaper Lidové noviny. In 1990 Štětina started working as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, where he covered numerous conflicts in the former Soviet Union. In 1992, he founded the foundation Lidových novin. During 1993-94 he was editor-in-chief of Lidové noviny. In 1994, he founded the independent journalist agency Epicentrum, dedicated to war reporting, with fellow journalist Petra Procházková.

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