Rihards Kols

Rihards Kols is a member of the European Parliament from the National Alliance (European Conservatives and Reformists Group), serves on the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs (AFET), International Trade (INTA) and Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committees. Member of the Board in the National Alliance party. Previously Kols served as a Member of the 12th, 13th and 14th Saeima (Parliament) of Latvia, chaired the Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee for two terms, was the head of the Saeima delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Saeima’s contact point in the Parliamentary Network of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (EASO). He is a Member of the Atlantic Council’s “Millennium Fellowship” program, serves in the National Guard of Latvia. Kols holds a Master’s degree in diplomacy and a Professional Bachelor’s degree in law.

The National Alliance is a national-conservative political party whose goal has always been and will be a Latvian Latvia. Values: Latvian nation, language and culture, honouring and remembrance of national heroes, independence and growth of Latvia, prosperity and justice, family and marriage, human life, nature and God.

The European Conservatives and Reformists Group is a centre-right political group in the European Parliament, founded in 2009 with a common cause to reform the EU based on eurorealism, respecting the sovereignty of nations, and focusing on economic recovery, growth and competitiveness. From its 8 founding Member States with 54 MEPs in 2009, we now have 80 members from 19 EU Member States.

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