2010. June 23. The impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights - Kinga Gál MEP leads Parliamentary hearing
The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament held a two-day hearing on the impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The conference, led by Kinga Gál MEP (EPP) and Juan Fernando López Aguilar (S&D), welcomed Commissioner Viviane Reding as well as a range of experts and NGOs. more

	2010. June 11. Kinga Gál hosts the EURASIA-Net Project seminar in the European Parliament
Funded by the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7, the overall objective of EURASIA-Net is to enhance the requisite knowledge-base for new policies and instruments to reduce ethnic- religious conflicts and to foster stability and security in South Asia. more

European Parliament hosts exhibition on famous Hungarians
An exhibition of famous Hungarian artists and scientists from the 18th century to the present opened in the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday. The people presented in the exhibition - subtitled From the past of Trianon to the future of Schengen - are "forerunners to the current building of a unified Europe," Joseph Daul, head of the Christian-Democratic-Conservative group of the European People's Party, said at the opening ceremony. MEP Kinga Gal of Hungary's governing Fidesz party, who organised the exhibition, said that "there is a new, European dimension to handle the heritage of Trianon". more

Intergroup welcomes the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities
The Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages, chaired by Kinga Gál and Carl Haglund MEPs, welcomed the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities (HCNM) today for a lively meeting in Strasbourg. more

EU accession to the ECHR will improve human rights
Today the European Parliament voted on the report for the Union's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. The opinion of EPP-ED MEP Kinga Gál, who is member of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee, represents a part of this report. more

Kinga Gál addresses Fundamental Rights Agency conference
Kinga Gál was invited to the symposium entitled “Strengthening the fundamental rights architecture in the EU” organised by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) in Vienna, on 7th May 2010. The event, focusing on the institutional mechanisms to protect, promote and monitor fundamental rights in the EU, was the first annual symposium of the FRA. more

'Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water' - we must ensure that ECHR accession strengthens human rights
Yesterday, the European Parliament listened to representatives from the Council and the Commission about the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). At the plenary debate Kinga Gál MEP (EPP) gave her opinion on behalf of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE). more