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Livia Jaroka became the first woman of Roma origin to be elected Vice - President of the European Parliament in a plenary session on November 15, 2017, by 290 voices in favour.

Livia Jaroka is a Hungarian politician and in 2004 she was the first female member of the European Parliament in Strasbourg of Roma origin. Jaroka is from the Hungarian conservative Fidesz party and is in the EPP Group. In the Parliament, she participates in several committees, including the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Livia Jaroka was born on October 6, 1974, in the town of Tata, Hungary, in a family of Jewish and Roma, and then lives in Sopron near the Austrian border. According to her, there were no other Roma, and as a child she did not feel any discrimination or racism. Jaroka claims she comes from a family of musicians, though her mother was a tailor and her father a waiter. When her father lost his job because Austrian tourists did not want to be served by "darkskinned", she moved with the family in Budapest, where she fell into a Roma community (she called the famous 8th district of Hungarian Harlem) awakens her ethnic consciousness.

At the end of the 1990s, she studied at the Central European University Branch in Warsaw and specialized social anthropology at University College London, focusing on the Roma ethnic identity and how it is influenced by racist texts in rap music in Hungary and reflected in the youth movement "I am proud to be Roma".

Jaroka is also among the creators in 2001 of Radio C - the first fully Roma information radio station in Central Europe.

In 2006, Jaroka was among the people in the "Union of Values", part of the EPP campaign to modernize its image to Europeans, and in September 2006 was nominated for the 2006 Parliamentary Prize in the field of Justice and Fundamental Rights Parliament Magazine.