Karlo Ressler | |
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| Member of the European Parliament forCroatia | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1989-12-26)26 December 1989 (age 35) Zagreb,SR Croatia,Yugoslavia |
| Political party |  CroatianCroatian Democratic Union  EUEuropean People's Party |
| Spouse | |
| Relations | Vladimir Šeks(stepfather)[1] |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
| Website | www |
Karlo Ressler (born 26 December 1989) is a Croatian politician who has been serving as aMember of the European Parliament since 2019.[2]
Ressler graduated with honors from theFaculty of Law of theUniversity of Zagreb. He completed his senior year at theUniversity of Sheffield, England, participating inErasmus Programme. At theMax Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law inFreiburg, Germany, he is completing his doctorate degree onhuman trafficking inSoutheast Europe.[citation needed]
After graduation in 2014, Ressler started working as an assistant at Zagreb University's Faculty of Law.[citation needed]
Ressler is a member of theCroatian Democratic Union (HDZ) since 2009. From 2013 to 2016, he was an assistant toAndrej Plenković, a member of theEuropean Parliament at the time. When the HDZ won the2016 parliamentary election, he was appointed as an advisor for legal and political issues toPrime Minister Plenković.
Ressler led the HDZ's list for theEuropean Parliament election in May 2019. The HDZ won 4 seats and the highest number of votes with 22.7 percent, while Ressler won the highest number ofpreferential votes on the HDZ's list; 52,309 total votes (21.71 percent) which was the fourth-best overall score.
In 2017, Ressler led the Working group on the new Statute of the HDZ. Currently, he is a member of the HDZ's Statute Commission and Vice-President of the Party's Judicial Committee. He coordinated the creation of the HDZ's Program "Croatia for Generations" for the 2019 European Parliament elections.
Ressler is the Vice-President of theYouth of the European People's Party (YEPP) for the second term.
Within theNinth European Parliament, Ressler serves on theCommittee on Budgets (BUDG) and theCommittee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). In this capacity, he has been the parliament'srapporteur on a 2020 law ruling the handling of fingerprints[3] and on thebudget of the European Union for 2022.[4]
In addition to his committee assignments, Ressler is part of the parliament's delegation for relations with China.[5] He is also a member of the European Internet Forum[6] and of the URBAN Intergroup.[7]
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