| Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2004 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 June 1952 Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary |
| Political party | MSZP |
| Alma mater | Karl Marx University of Budapest |
| Profession | Economist, Diplomat |
| Website | http://www.tabajdi.hu |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi (born June 26, 1952 in Kiskunfélegyháza) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.[1] He is member of the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Petitions, as well as the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and a substitute member of the Committee on Environment and Public Health and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.[2]
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He went to primary school in the Southern Hungarian village of Szank, and did his secondary school in Kiskunfélegyháza. In 1974, he got his degree in international relations at the Karl Marx University of Budapest. In 1974-75 and later in 1981-83 he was an administrator in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary. During these years, he was cultural attaché of the Hungarian Embassy in Moscow for 7 years.
In 1983-89 he worked for the foreign affairs department of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party as a deputy head of the department from 1986 onwards. In 1989-90 he led the Secretariat of the College of National and Ethnic Minorities for the Council of Ministers.[3]
He was a member of the Hungarian National Assembly between 1990 and 2004 in the group of the Hungarian Socialist Party. From 1991 he was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the Social Democratic political group.
In 1994-98 he was state secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister. After 1998 he was member, then (from 2002) head of the Hungarian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union.
Since 2004, he has been a Member of the European Parliament in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, and the head of the Hungarian Socialist Delegation.[4]