Kinga Gál

Early life and education

• Institute for Comparative Human Rights, Strasbourg, France diploma of international human rights
• Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary political science and law department

  Career

• Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, Bucharest, Romania advisor
• Teleki Foundation researcher
• Government Office for Hungarian Minorities Abroad analyst, vice-chairman
• European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany international legal expert
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences chief advisor to the president

  European Parliament

• Member of the European Parliament - since 2004
• The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards - The Justice and Civil Liberties category Award in 2014
• Vice-President of the European People's Party - since 2015. October

  Committees and delegations

• Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, vice-chair
• Subcommittee on Human Rights, member
• Minority Intergroup, chair
• Delegation for the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States - European Union JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY, member

  Personal life

Publications

• "Önrendelkezés és önkormányzatiság Kossuth felfogásában, 1861". Pro Minoritate. Budapest. 1991.
• "Kisebbségvédelem a nemzetközi jogban, Magyar Kisebbség" . II évfolyam, 1-2 szám, Kolozsvár. 1996.
• "A Román Parlament elé terjesztett kisebbségi törvény-tervezetek összehasonlítása". Magyar Kisebbség, III. évfolyam, 1-2 szám, pp. 244–255, Kolozsvár. 1997.
• "Bilateral Agreements in Central and Eastern Europe: A New Inter-State Framework for Minority Protection?". European Centre for Minority Issues Working Paper # 4. p. 22. Flensburg, Germany. May 1999.
• "Implementing the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities". Co-author: María Amor Martín Estébanez. Flensburg, Germany, 12–14 June 1998. European Centre for Minority Issues Report #3. p. 96. August 1999.
• "The role of the bilateral treaties in the protection of national minorities in Central and Eastern Europe". Helsinki Monitor, Quarterly on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Volume 10, No.3, pp. 73–90, 1999.
• "Minoritätenprobleme in Ungarn und Rumänien". In Neuss, Beate, Peter Jurczek and Wolfram Hilz Transformationsprozesse im suedlichen Mitteleuropa — Ungarn und Rumänien. Beiträge zu einem politik- und regional-wissenschaftlichen Symposium an der TU Chemnitz. Occasional papers no. 20, Tuebingen: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus- Forschung. pp. 31–41. 1999.
• "Innere Selbstbestimmung — Aktuelle Autonomiekonzepte der Minderheiten in Rumanien". In Löwe, Tontsch und Troebst, Minderheiten, Regionalbewusstsein und Zentralismus in Ostmitteleuropa, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar Wien. 2000.
• "The New Slovak language law: Internal or External Politics?". Co-author: Farimah Daftary. European Centre for Minority Issues Working Paper # 8. pp. 71. Flensburg, Germany. September 2000.
• "The Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and its Impact on Central and Eastern Europe". Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe. Winter 2000.
• "Legal and Political Aspects of Protecting Minorities in Southeastern Europe in the Context of European Enlargement". In Wim van Meurs, Beyond EU Enlargement. Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, Gütersloh.2001.
• "Aktuelle Autonomiekonzepte ungarischer Minderheiten in Ostmitteleuropa". In Adriányi, Glassl, Völkl, Borbándi, Brunner, Ungarn-Jahrbuch, Zeitschrift für die Kunde Ungarns und verwandte Gebiete. München. 2002.
• "Staatsangehörigkeit in Ungarn heute" . In Osteuropa, Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens, 52.Jg., 6/2002. Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, Stuttgart. 2002.
• Minority Governance at the Threshold of the 21st Century, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg; Open Society Institute, Budapest. October 2002.
• "The European Parliament Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages, 2009–2014". Europäisches Journal für Minderheitenfragen, EJM 3–4. Co-author: Davyth Hicks.
• "National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: Commentary from Country Perspective". In National Minorities in Inter-State Relations'', edited by Francesco Palermo — Natalie Sabandze. Leiden, Boston. 2011.
• "Az európai kulturális sokszínűség régi és új arcai". In Örökség a jövőnek — Nemzetközi Konferencia, Magyar Országgyűlés, 2010. November 25, előadások, Budapest. 2011.
• . Co-authors: Davyth Hicks, Eplényi Kata. Published by Kinga Gál, Brussels. December 2011.