László Surján

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László Surján (born on 7 September 1941 in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania)) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.

Surján is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.

[edit] Education

• 1969: General practitioner
• 1969: Professor's assistant, Institute of Histology, Budapest University of Medicine
• University of Further Medical Training

[edit] Career

• 1990-1995: Chairman of the Christian Democratic Party
• 1995-1997 and since 2001: Vice-Chairman
• 1992-1998: Vice-President of the EUCD (European Union of Christian Democrats)
• 1994-1998: Chairman of the Employment Committee of the Hungarian Parliament
• 1998-2002: Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee
• 1990-1994: Minister of Welfare
• 1999-2004: Deputy leader, Group of the European People's Party, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• 2000-2001: Head, Hungarian delegation (1998-2002), Deputy Speaker, Hungarian Parliament
• since 2004: Member of the European Parliament
• Member of the bureau, EPP-ED group (since 2004), Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with Chile

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary)

[edit] External links

• European Parliament biography of László Surján (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• DeclarationPDF of financial interests (Hungarian)