Majlinda Bregu

Majlinda Bregu (born 19 May 1974) is an Albanian politician and diplomat. She served as Minister of European Integration and Government Spokeswoman from 2007 to 2013 in the Berisha cabinet. A member of the Albanian Parliament from 2005 until 2017 representing Tirana County, since January 2019 she is the Secretary-General of the Regional Cooperation Council.

Majlinda Bregu
Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council
Assumed office
January 2019
Preceded byGoran Svilanović
Member of Parliament
In office
September 2005 – September 2017
Prime MinisterSali Berisha
Edi Rama
Minister of European Integration
In office
March 2007 – September 2013
Prime MinisterSali Berisha
Preceded byArenca Trashani
Succeeded byKlajda Gjosha
Chairperson of the Committee for European Integration
In office
September 2013 – September 2017
Prime MinisterEdi Rama
Preceded byDitmir Bushati
Personal details
Born (1974-05-19) 19 May 1974[1]
NationalityAlbanian
Political partyDemocratic Party
SpouseNamik Ajazi
Children2
ResidenceTirana
Alma materUniversity of Tirana
Urbino University, Italy
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Education

Bregu obtained a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences at the University of Tirana in 1996.[2] The following year she was a visiting student at Montreal (Canada), Oslo (Norway) and Frankfurt am Oder (Germany).

She held a master's degree in social policy at the University of Tirana in 2003. She has a PhD from Urbino University in Italy with a thesis entitled "Sociology of cultural phenomena's and normative process".[2]

Career

From 1996 and 2007 she worked as Full-Time Lecturer at the Social Sciences Faculty in the University of Tirana.

During the student years, she began her TV media experience, first as translator, then anchorperson and Journalist at the National Albanian Television. In 2004 she got appointed as the coordinator of Social Policies at the Political Orientation Committee of the Democratic Party. Then she became a Member of the National Council of the Party in April 2004. During the general election of 2005, she was declared as a candidate for parliament, representing Tirana.

Legislative proposals

Personal key legislative initiatives on EUI and Human Rights protection (7 enacted legal acts).

In January 2014, in the Law Commission, Bregu proposes amendments to the (Albanian) Civil Code, which would force the administrators of online media, websites and social networks to censor the comments of visitors on the ground of being offensive to "the dignity, personality and image of a woman".[3][4][5]

Publications

"Europe, Back & Forth", 2014;

"Monitoring of Media on Domestic Violence, co-author 2003, -2004;

"Manual for judges & prosecutors dealing with Gender Based Violence";

"Children trafficking in Albania", Co-author 2005;

"Research methods in Social Sciences", co-author,2003.

References
  1. "Majlinda Bregu". GLP. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  2. "Majlinda Bregu". Balkans. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  3. Bregu: Mediat online të fshijnë komentet denigruese për femrat Archived 24 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, ORA News, 22 January 2015
  4. Ligji në Parlamentin shqiptar: Komentet fyese në internet do të fshihen, Bota Sot, 2 April 2015
  5. "Online media in Albania will be obliged to delete denigrating comments". Retrieved 5 April 2015.
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