Article tagged with"fundamental rights"

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  2010. 05. 14.
  

  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.
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  2010. 05. 06.
  

  '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).
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  2010. 02. 12.
  

  Viviane Reding’s cabinet, EBLUL- challenges for national and linguistic minorities

  A packed Intergroup meeting led by Ms Kinga Gál on Thursday (11th February) heard from the Cabinet of the new Commissioner for Justice (Viviane Reding) on the possibilities afforded by the Lisbon Treaty, and Davyth Hicks from the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages, who repeated the call for the abolition of discrimination against Europe’s national and linguistic minorities.
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