11 Facts About Marcel Kolaja

Marcel Kolaja served as Quaestor of the Parliament from 2022 to 2024, being responsible for overseeing the administrative and financial matters of the institution.

Apart from being a Bureau member in the European Parliament, Marcel Kolaja was a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the Committee on Culture and Education, and the Special Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus, as well as in the delegations for relations with the United States and with India.

Marcel Kolaja stands for open technologies, freedom on the Internet, independence of media, transparency, and a united Europe.

Marcel Kolaja worked as an activist against the adoption of software patent legislation in the European Union from 2003 and joined the Czech Pirate Party in 2010.

Marcel Kolaja became the second candidate of the Czech Pirate Party in the 2014 European Parliament election but was not elected.

Marcel Kolaja has worked as a technical product manager in Red Hat Czech, a research and development arm of Red Hat, Inc.

Marcel Kolaja was the party's leading candidate for the 2019 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic and was elected MEP along with Marketa Gregorova and Mikulas Peksa.

Marcel Kolaja serves as a vice-chairman of the parliamentary Working Group on ICT Innovation Strategy, as a member of the Bureau of the European Parliament as well as European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Marcel Kolaja aims guarantee fair competition in the online economy by preventing Big Tech gatekeepers from abusing their power.

Marcel Kolaja played a crucial role in initiating FOSSEPS, which aims to "manage and protect open source and treat it as a collective European asset across Europe".

Marcel Kolaja was a member of the following Committees of the European Parliament:.