László Surján

László Surján
File:László Surján MEP 1, Strasbourg 2014 - Diliff.jpg
Member of the European Parliament for Hungary
In office 2004–2014
Personal details
Born	(1941-09-07) 7 September 1941 Kolozsvár
Political party	Fidesz, European People's Party
Children	3
Profession	Physician

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

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

He is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.

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
• since 2004: 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

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary)

External links

• Personal profile of László Surján in the European Parliament's database of members
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (Hungarian)