László Surján Explained

László Surján
Office:	Member of the European Parliament for Hungary
Term Start:	2004
Term End:	2014
Birth Date:	7 September 1941
Birth Place:	Kolozsvár
Nationality:	Hungarian
Spouse:	Lászlóné Surján
Party:	Fidesz, European People's Party, Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary)
Profession:	Physician

László Surján (born 7 September 1941 in Kolozsvár, (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the FIDESZ from 2004 to 2014.^[1]

He was the president of the Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary) political party from 1994-1998. He remained a member of the party to this day.

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

He was a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.^[2]

Education

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

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
• 2004–2014: Member of the European Parliament
• Member of the bureau, EPP-ED group (since 2004), Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with Chile
• since 2012: Vice-President of the European Parliament

Personal life

He is married to Lászlóné Surján, they have together three children - two daughters, Zsófia Margit and Orsolya Katalin as well as a son, László György.^[3]

See also

• 2004 European Parliament election in Hungary

Notes and References

1. Web site: Your MEPs : László SURJÁN. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121011001321/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do;jsessionid=76552365A098F4211B133FA1B3825FB9.node2?language=EN&partNumber=1&country=HU&id=23820 . 2012-10-11 .
2. Web site: Prague Declaration: Selected signatories . . https://web.archive.org/web/20110825012931/http://praguedeclaration.org/vipsig . 2011-08-25 . 2011-05-10 . dead .
3. http://www.origo.hu/itthon/20030220surjan.html origo.hu - Vagyonnyilatkozat - February 2003