Gábor István Harangozó (born September 27, 1975, in

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) is a Hungarian politician and

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(MEP) for the

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, part of the

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. Harangozó spent his childhood years in

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. After completing his secondary education, he enrolled in the

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in 1995, where he received a degree in

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. He then went on to study European Funds Management at CAH Dronten in the Netherlands. From 2002 he represented the German federal state of

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. He was elected an MEP in the 2004 general elections, and he was the youngest Hungarian MEP then. In 2010 he became a member of the

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Personal life

He is married. His wife is Vanda Harangozóné Tuboly. They have two daughters, Sára and Emma and a son, Dávid.HARANGOZÓ GÁBOR ISTVÁN - MSZP - 2015-ÖS VAGYONNYILATKOZAT - BUDAPEST, January 28, 2016
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Tamás Harangozó Tamás Harangozó (born 27 June 1979) is a Hungarian jurist and politician, member of the National Assembly from the Hungarian Socialist Party's Tolna County Tolna (, ; ) is an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus ...

is also a representative in the Hungarian Parliament.

References

Biography at the Hungarian Socialist Party Website

Profile at the European Parliament Website
1975 births Living people Hungarian Socialist Party politicians Hungarian Socialist Party MEPs MEPs for Hungary 2004–2009 Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018) {{Hungary-MEP-stub