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Pat Cox
President of the European Parliament
Webcast July 11, 2002, 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT
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Pat Cox
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Pat Cox is completing his first half-year as president of the European Parliament, a post he assumed in January.
His address to the National Press Club comes during a four-day tour of the United States that includes meetings with top United Nations and White House figures, including Vice President Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Cox entered the European Parliament in 1989 as a representative from Munster in the Republic of Ireland. He shifted to the Irish Parliament in 1992, and returned to the European Parliament in 1994 as an independent. There he joined the European Liberal Democrats, the third largest political "grouping" in the parliament.
His role as a politician is informed by his past experience as a professor of economics and as a political correspondent.
In the 1970s he was an economics lecturer at the University of Limerick, as well as the Institute of Public Administration in Dublin.
From 1982 to 1986 he was a current affairs reporter for the Irish TV news show Today Tonight. Among other things, he covered elections in the United States, Britain and France.
Before he reached the European Parliament, Cox was the founding general secretary of the Progressive Democrats, a party formed in late 1985.
Cox is a 1974 graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He is married and the father of six children.
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