Richard Falbr

Falbr was born in Chester, England, during World War II, in which his father served in the fighter squadron.

After the end of the war, the family lived briefly in the UK and Czechoslovakia, before Falbr's father was sent to work in the embassy in Venezuela, where Richard attended primary school.

Falbr worked as a foreign-language correspondent from 1959 to 1963, then as a language teacher for the communist secret police until 1969.

[citation needed] In 1969, Falbr graduated from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague as a Doctor of Jurisprudence.

He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, and was a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Mercosur.