Majlinda Bregu

Majlinda Bregu
Member of Parliament
In office
September 2005 – September 2017
Prime Minister Sali Berisha
Edi Rama
Minister of European Integration
In office
March 2007 – September 2013
Prime Minister Sali Berisha
Preceded by Arenca Trashani
Succeeded by Klajda Gjosha
Chairperson of the Committee for European Integration
Assumed office
September 2013
Prime Minister Edi Rama
Preceded by Ditmir Bushati
Personal details
Born (1974-05-19) 19 May 1974[1]
Nationality Albanian
Political party Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Namik Ajazi
Children 2
Residence Tirana
Alma mater University of Tirana
Urbino University, Italy

Majlinda Bregu (born 19 May 1974) is an Albanian politician. She served as Minister of European Integration and Government’s Spokesperson from 2007-2013 in the Berisha cabinet.(From the SAA ratification, application of EU membership, entry into force and implementation of the first transitory phase; visa liberalisation up to granting candidate status. Lead the process of the set up of the legal and institutional framework for the coordination and management of the EUI process; Initiator of the first bilateral agreements on EUI cooperation in the region, still in place.

Agreement with Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo and Montenegro

Member of Parliament Democratic Party (Centre Right) from 2005-2017. 2005-2007, Chair of Albanian Parliamentary Delegation at the European Parliament Chair of the subcommittee for Minors and Gender Equality. From 2013-2017 she held the positions of the Chair of EU Integration Parliamentary Committee & Chair of the National Council on European Integration. Initiator of the “European Summer School”,focused on enhancing capacities and identification of negotiators of the Albanian Team from the public administration sector and civil society, in perspective of the opening of Accession Talks with EU. Member of the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. Chair of the Albanian Parliamentary Friendship group with the Italian Parliament. ref>keshilliministrave.al Archived 17 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine.</ref>

Education

Bregu obtained a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences at the University of Tirana in 1996.[2] The following year she was a visiting student at Montreal (Canada), Oslo (Norway) and Frankfurt am Oder (Germany).

She held a Master's degree in Social Policy at the University of Tirana in 2003. She has a PhD from Urbino University in Italy with a thesis entitled "Sociology of cultural phenomena's and normative process".[2]

Career

From 1996 and 2007 she worked as Full Time Lecturer at the Social Sciences Faculty, University of Tirana. 2004 was appointed as National Coordinator of Gender Institute, University of Tirana. From the time she was a student(1992) she began her TV media experience, first as translator, then anchorperson and Journalist at the Department of News,( National Albanian Television), later author of series of programs in Investigative Journalism such as smuggling of humans and trafficking of women and girls; author of a series of TV Doc-Fiction programs on human rights.

Bregu was the coordinator of the Social Policies at the Political Orientation Committee of the Democratic Party in January 2004. Then she became a Member of the National Council of the Party in April 2004.

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Legislative proposals

Personal key legislative initiatives on EUI and Human Rights protection (7 enacted legal acts).

In January 2014, in the Law Commission, Bregu proposes amendments to the (Albanian) Civil Code, which would force the administrators of online media, websites and social networks to censor the comments of visitors on the ground of being offensive to "the dignity, personality and image of a woman".[3][4][5]

Publications

“Europe, Back & Forth,” 2014;

“Monitoring of Media on Domestic Violence, co-author 2003, -2004;

“Manual for judges & prosecutors dealing with Gender Based Violence”;

“Children trafficking in Albania”, Co-author 2005;

“Research methods in Social Sciences”, co-author,2003.

References

  1. ↑ "Majlinda Bregu". GLP. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Majlinda Bregu". Balkans. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  3. ↑ Bregu: Mediat online të fshijnë komentet denigruese për femrat, ORA News, January 22, 2015
  4. ↑ Ligji në Parlamentin shqiptar: Komentet fyese në internet do të fshihen, Bota Sot, April 2, 2015
  5. ↑ "Online media in Albania will be obliged to delete denigrating comments". Retrieved 2015-04-05.
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