Lucia Yar

Lucia Yar (born 15 May 1987) is a Slovak journalist and politician of Progressive Slovakia. She was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.

Biography
Lucia Yar was born on 15 May 1987 in Snina. She is of Rusyn and Goral ancestry.

Yar has been a lecturer at Comenius University and the European Security and Defence College. She also worked for the European Commission and was an advisor at the Ministry of Defence.

During the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election campaign, Yar led a campaign Circle a woman, advocating for increasing the female representation in the National Council of Slovakia through preferential votes for female candidates.

From 20117 until announcing her candidacy in the 2024 European Parliament elections, she worked as a journalist in the Slovak version of Euractiv.