Boris Zala
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Boris Zala | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Slovakia | |
| In office 20 July 2004 – 2 July 2019 | |
| Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic | |
| In office 15 October 2002 – 20 July 2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 December 1954 |
| Party | SDSS (1990–2000) SMER-SD (2000–2016) |
| Alma mater | Comenius University |
Boris Zala (born 9 December 1954) is a Slovak politician for the parliamentary party SMER-SD, a member of the Slovak parliament, and the current Chairman of the parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.[1] He is also Assistant Professor at Constantine the Philosopher University (UKF) in Nitra, Columnist,[2][3] Chair of the Political Science, and European Studies Department at UKF's Faculty of Philosophy.
Zala graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1979. After graduation, he proceeded with his study of philosophy and received his PhD degree (1981) and CSc degree (1995) from the same university.
In 1981, he worked as a journalist at Slovak Radio but was forced to quit the job due to political persecution and seek employment in various manual worker professions before he eventually managed to get a research job at the Social Development and Labour Research Institute in Bratislava in 1984.
In 1990, he became head of the Secretariat of the Speaker of Slovak parliament and Lecturer in Philosophy at Comenius University, Bratislava.
Since 2000, he has been Chair of the Political Science and European Studies Department at UKF's Faculty of Philosophy in the western Slovak city of Nitra. He is the author of six philosophy, political science, and history monographs and has written dozens of research studies and papers dealing with social science issues. As a media analyst and political commentator, he wrote hundreds of political analyses for the Slovak press and participated in or co-authored several media projects at Slovak Television (STV) and Slovak Radio (SRo).
In 1988–89, Zala took an active part in organizing protest activities against the Communist regime and was one of the co-founders of Public Against Violence (VPN) – a broad civic movement established by democratic activists with the view of putting the country back on democratic track within the framework of the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
