 : PensionsEurope Annual Conference 2021

Dubravka Šuica was appointed Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Democracy and Demography in December 2019. She is a Croatian politician from the city of Dubrovnik, where she served as its first female mayor and was awarded the 2006 World Mayor Award. Šuica entered politics in the 1990s as a Member of the Croatian Democratic Union and served as a Member of the Croatian Parliament and Vice-Chair of the EU Integration Committee. Between 2004 and 2009 she was a board member of the Union of the Association of Towns and Municipalities of the Republic of Croatia. She spent ten years as President of the Croatian Delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. From 2013 to 2019 she served as a Member of the European Parliament and was elected as first Vice-Chair of EPP Group in the European Parliament in June 2019.

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