MEP – Vice-Chairman Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
EPP
Hungary
08/06/1966
kinga.gal@europarl.europa.eu
Born in 1970 in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár/, Romania, Kinga Gál has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004. The holder of a university degree in law from the faculty of law of ELTE in Budapest, Gál worked for four years as a research fellow in the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. Nominated for her work in favour of “linguistic diversity” in Europe, the EPP deputy has been praised for “available and approachable” attitude while a vice-chair of parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee. She has also been recognised for maintaining an “impeccable discourse” across the whole of her parliamentary career. Gál has also pursued her work through the European parliament’s Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages Intergroup, where she has made the EU’s motto of ‘united in diversity’ a driving force in her endeavours to push for greater inclusion and integration for Europe’s peoples.
Kinga was nominated to the MEP Awards 2014 in “Jutice and civil Liberties”