Csaba Sógor

Csaba Sógor is a distinguished fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. He was member of the European Parliament (2012-2019).

As a member of the European Parliament Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages, and as member of the ASEAN delegation, he devoted most of his energy to the promotion of the rights of minorities.

As a member of the European Parliament Working Group on Intercultural Activities and Interreligious Dialogue (Co-chairs MEP Jan Olbrycht and MEP György Hölvényi) he participated in many activities related to the relations between religions.

Csaba Sógor began his political career in 1990 as a member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania. Since 1995, he has been a member of the Union Representatives. As a member of this party, he was elected for the first time to Congress in Cluj UDMR. He was also a pastor in the Reformed Church in Romania, serving in Ciceu from 1988 to 1999. From 2000 to 2004, he was the UDMR’s Senator from Harghita, where he was a member of the Committee for Education, Science and Youth. Sógor was re-elected as Senator from the same party from 2004 to 2008. He was secretary of the UDMR’s Parliamentary Group. He resigned from Parliament on 3 December 2007 and was replaced by Senator Vilmos Zsombori. In 2007 he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament from UDMR. Asked by journalists about his goals in Brussels, he said he would push for the Székelys’ autonomy and for the Székely Hungarian language as the second language of the state, at least where the Hungarian community represents 20% of the total population.