Csaba Sándor Tabajdi
The Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2013
(Berlin; December 17th – 21st, 2013)
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi (1952, Kiskunfélegyháza) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. 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.
Political Career[edit]
In 1989, he headed the Secretariat of the National and ethnic minorities board of the Council of Ministers of Hungary and a deputy minister in the Government of Hungary. He was a member of the Hungarian National Assembly between 1990 and 2004 in the group of the Hungarian Socialist Party and from 1991 a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the Social Democratic political group. In 1994-98 he was political state secretary (deputy minister) at 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. In 1998-2002, he worked as adviser on European integration matters in the Bács-Kiskun Regional Authority and in 2002-04, he was member of the Bács-Kiskun Regional Assembly Since 2003, he has been a Member of the European Parliament (in 2003-04 as observer) in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, and the head of the Hungarian Socialist Delegation. Since 2011, he has been the co-chair of the Intergroup of National Minorities, National Communities and Languages. He is the Vice-President of the European Parliamentary Association.
Education[edit]
In 1974, he got his degree in International Relations at the Karl Marx University of Budapest. Since 2008 he has been an honorary professor at the Istvan Széchenyi University of Gyor.
Notable Wrok[edit]
In 1975-82, he was Cultural Attaché of the Hungarian Embassy in Moskow for 7 years and from 1983 to 1989 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 College of National and Ethnic Minorities for the Council of Ministers. From 1990 to 1994 he was board member of the Illyés Foundation for Hungarians Living Abroad.
Awards[edit]
He won in the 1992 the Marton Aron Award and the Award for Bacs-Kiskun County in 1996 and 2004.
Further information[edit]
Cultural Diplomacy & Cross Continental Cooperation: Building Bridges for a United Global Community
The Mutual Understanding of Peoples as a Prerequisite of European Solidarity
