19 Facts About Tanja Fajon

Tanja Fajon was born on 9 May 1971 and is a Slovenian politician, former leader of Social Democrats, part of the Party of European Socialists and former Member of the European Parliament from Slovenia.

Tanja Fajon has been serving as the minister of foreign and european affairs in the government of Prime Minister Robert Golob since 1 June 2022.

Tanja Fajon is a head of the Slovenian delegation within the political group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

Tanja Fajon is the author of several documentaries, including Rise of the extreme right in Europe, Human tragedies at the doorstep of Europe, and Constitution of European Union.

Tanja Fajon graduated in journalism at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.

Tanja Fajon worked as a journalist and assistant editor at Radio Glas Ljubljana from 1991 to 1995.

Tanja Fajon was a reporter and a writer for the Slovenian daily newspaper Republika in 1993.

Tanja Fajon worked for RTV Slovenia from 1995 to 2001 as a local journalist, and as a correspondent for RTV Slovenia in Brussels from 2001 to 2009.

Tanja Fajon was a reporter for CNN from 1995 to 2001.

Tanja Fajon covered issues from politics, to economy and business, in different States of the European Union, particularly in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France.

In 2009, Fajon was elected to the European Parliament on behalf of the Social Democrats, associated with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

Tanja Fajon was a vice chairwoman of the European Parliament delegation with Croatia until Croatia's membership in the European Union, and a member of the Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering.

Tanja Fajon is a full member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, a substitute member in the Committee on Transport and Tourism, and a substitute member of the European Union-United States delegation.

Tanja Fajon serves as a substitute member of the Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, and was a rapporteur on the visa liberalisation process for the Western Balkans.

Tanja Fajon is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity ; of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights; and the MEPs Against Cancer group.

Tanja Fajon contributed greatly to the Albanian citizens getting the right to freely travel in EU Schengen Area without visas.

In December 2010, a cafe named after Tanja Fajon was opened in her honor in Tirana, the capital of Albania.

Tanja Fajon helped Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Moldova gain freedom of Schengen movement as well.

In late 2014, the two main political groups in the European Parliament agreed with Jean-Claude Juncker, then president-elect of the European Commission, that Tanja Fajon should be Slovenia's member of the European Commission.