Borut Pahor

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Borut Pahor (born on 2 November 1963 in Postojna) is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is the president of the Social Democrats, which are part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

He is one of the most popular Slovenian politicians and was considering running for the office of President of Slovenia in the 2007 presidential elections. Although being at the top of the opinion pools, he declared he will instead lead his party to the parliamentary elections in 2008^[1].

Born on 2 November 1963, Postojna.

1 Education and Training
2 Career
3 Language Skills
4 Hobby
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Education and Training

1983 - 1987 University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and Journalism, Bachelor of Political Sciences, Graduated with Distinction and awarded by Prešeren National Prize.

[edit] Career

1990 - 2000 Member of the Slovenian National Assembly
1990 - 1992: Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee
1992 - 1996: Member of the European Affairs Committee, the Committee for Supervision of the Work of the Security and Intelligence Services, and the Defence Committee
1993 - 1997 Member of the Assembly of the Western European Union
1993 - 1997: Vice-President of the Združena lista socialnih demokratov (ZLSD - United List of Social Democrats)
1993 - 2000 Leader of the Slovenian delegation in the Parliamentary assembly of Council of Europe
1995 Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Slovenian National Assembly
1995 - 1996 Member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
1996 Vice- Chairman of the Parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
1996 - 1997 Vice-President of the National Assembly
1996 - 2000 Member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the Constitutional Commission and the Defence Committee
Since 1997 Leader of the Social Democrats of Slovenia (former United list of Social Democrats Slovenia)
2000 - 2004 President of the Slovenian National Assembly
2001 Honour member of the Parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe
Since 2004 Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Committee on Budgetary Control, Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and Substitute Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Member
Vice-Chairman of the Delegation to EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee
Since 2004 Member of the Presidency of the Party of the European Socialists