Jozo Radoš (; born 3 November 1956) is a Croatian liberal

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currently serving as one out of 11 Croatian members of the European Parliament. He previously served as a Minister of Defence, member of the

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and as an observer in the European Parliament for Croatia.

Biography

Native

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, Radoš was born in Seonica village in

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. He attended elementary school in

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and gymnasium in

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. In 1983 he graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of University of Zagreb. From 1983 until 1986 he worked as a professor of history and electrical engineering in

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and Đakovo. From 1986 until 1990 he worked as designer of the development of system of power electronics in KONČAR Group. In 1990 he joined Croatian Social Liberal Party where he served as party's vice president until 1998. From 1990 until 1992 he worked as technologist of electronics in bulbs factory in Zagreb. In 1992 he became member of parliament. In 1993 he graduated philosophy and history at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Zagreb. During the war years he was member of reserve in Croatian police. At the time of Zagreb crisis in 1995 he was elected Mayor of Zagreb, but was not confirmed by President

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. As such, he wasn't formally prepared for mayor duties and had to resign. From 1998 until 2000 he was general secretary of the Croatian Social Liberal Party. In 2011 he graduated at Faculty of Political Science of University of Zagreb. The HSLS entered an alliance with SDP for the 2000 parliament elections which they won. Following this, Radoš became Croatian Minister of Defence in the government led by

Ivica Račan Ivica Račan (; 24 February 1944 – 29 April 2007) was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments. Račan became the first prime minister of Croatia not to be ...

. During his mandate as minister, the military

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was severely cut as part of a late post- war demilitarization. Mandatory military service was also cut from 12 to 6 months. During his entire mandate, personnel cuts to the army were planned, but never implemented. Following HSLS's leader Dražen Budiša's exit from the government, HSLS split into two factions, Radoš being a member of the dissident pro-government faction which would go on to create a party called ''Libra'' which Radoš became a president of. Despite his support for the government, Radoš previously resigned his post and was succeeded by SDP's

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as minister. Libra, along with Radoš, merged with the Croatian People's Party in 2005, since known as the

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Member of the European Parliament, 2012–present

Since 2014, Radoš has been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the parliament’s delegation for relations with

and

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a international recognition of Kosovo, partiall ...

and the delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee.

References

External links

Jozo Radoš
at the

official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Rados, Jozo 1956 births Living people People from Tomislavgrad Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats politicians Croatian Social Liberal Party politicians Defence ministers of Croatia Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb alumni MEPs for Croatia 2014–2019 Party of Liberal Democrats politicians