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Ing. Pavel Bratinka

Pavel Bratinka was born on March 14, 1946 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He holds degrees in Solid State Physics in Prague, Czech Republic and in Delft, The Netherlands. He graduated in 1970 and started to work on his advanced degree at the Solid State Physics Institute in Prague. As he refused to become member of Communist-dominated Youth Union, he was prevented from defending his thesis and his contract was terminated in 1974.

For the next seven years he worked as a low level clerk at the Institute for Technical Information and Development. In 1981 he was fired from this job on account of his activities related to the human rights movement. Until the downfall of the Communist regime he worked in manual jobs.

In 1989 Bratinka became Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Civic Forum and he was one of the founders of the Civic Democratic Alliance – a centre-right political party. By 1990 he had been elected to the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia and served as Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1993 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic responsible for multilateral relations including relations with the European Union.

In the 1996 elections he was elected again to the Czech Parliament and he became a Cabinet Minister without portfolio responsible for intelligence and security services, research and development and national minorities. He resigned from his post in the end of 1997 when the government disintegrated due to the crisis in one of the coalition parties. He did not take part in the 1998 elections.

Bratinka co-founded and currently runs Euroffice Praha-Brusel a.s., an European and Czech public affairs firm. He became Vice-President of the Prague Society for International Cooperation in 1999.


Book

Bombik, S., Bratinka, P., Nowakowski, J.M., Odom, W. E. & Waschler, T. 1993, NATO: The Case for Enlargement, Alliance Publishers Limited, Hereford and Worcester.


Websites

A site about Pavel Bratinka (Predominantly Czech)

The website of Bratinka’s firm Euroffice Praha-Brusel