Tibor Navracsics lawyer and political scientist, head of parliamentary group of the Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union

Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union

The Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union is a major conservative party in Hungary. At the 2010 election in Hungary, Fidesz-KDNP won a two-thirds majority of seats by gaining 52% of the votes, with Fidesz winning 227 seats and KDNP winning 36...

 political party.He is married, he has a daughter, who was born in 1991.

Education

• Degree in Law (University of ELTE 1990);
• Higher degree as Judge (1992);
• Lawyer and Political Scientist (ELTE 1994);
• PhD in Political Science (ELTE 2000)

Internal Scholarships

• 1994- 1996: Scholarship of the Soros Foundation, „Open Society and it’s New Enemies” ( with Attila Ágh, Martin Bútora, Zora Bútora, and András Lánczi);
• 1996-1999: OTKA- competition: „The Democracy in Middle- Eastern Europe” ( with Sándor Gallai, Sebestyén Gorka and Robert Szabó)

External Scholarships

• 1-31 October 1995: CEEPUS- Scholarship, University of Zagreb, Department of Political;
• 1 October 1996- 30 June 1997: Leverhulme- research/fellow Scholarship, University of Sussex, European Institute (Brighton, GB);
• 1998-2001: Jean Monnet-Scholarship

Career

• 1990-1992: Municipal Court, City of Veszprém – Tribunal Clerk;
• 1992-1993: Regional Assembly of Veszprém County – Research Fellow;
• 1993-1997: University of Economics, Budapest
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  , Department of Political Sciences – Assistant Professor;
• 1997- 2001: Department of Political Sciences – Associate Professor
• 1998-1999: Prime Minister’s Office, Communications Department – Head of Department, (Viktor Orbán
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  's Cabinet);
• 1999-2002: Prime Minister’s Office, Department for Press and Information – Head of Department;
• 2002-2003: Parliamentary Group of Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union, Head of Department for Political Analyses;
• 2003-2006: Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union, Chief of President’s Cabinet;
• 2004- Leader of the program-creating team, referred to as „Civic Governance”;
• 2006- Member of Parliament

Current occupation

• 2001- : Department of Political Sciences Eötvös Loránd University – Senior Associate Professor
• 2006- : Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union
  Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union
  The Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union is a major conservative party in Hungary. At the 2010 election in Hungary, Fidesz-KDNP won a two-thirds majority of seats by gaining 52% of the votes, with Fidesz winning 227 seats and KDNP winning 36...
  
   – Leader of the Fraction
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• The Congress of Fidesz in May, 2007, has accepted his (Navracsics’s) polemical essay „ Our Future”;
• Member of the Political Sciences Association

Professional Experiences

• 1990-1992: Department of Social Sciences at the University of Veszprém - Lecturer;
• 1992-1998: Dániel Berzsenyi Teacher’s College, Szombathely – Department of Sociology and olitical Sciences - Lecturer;
• 1992-1993: Periodical Comitatus - Editor;
• 1998-2000: Secretary General of the Hungarian Association of Political Scientists;
• 1996- : Vice-President, Association of the Hungarian Institute for Political Science;
• 1999- : Member of the Editorial Board, Politikatudományi Szemle (Political Science Review);
• 2001- : Member of the Presidency, Hungarian Association of Political Science

Navracsics courses at the University ELTE

• European Internal Politics
• Comparative Politics
• Analytical Course of Internal Politics
• Policies of the European Union (with Krisztina Arató)

Publications

• Európai belpolitika (Internal Politics in the European Union). Budapest: Korona, 1996
• Political Analysis of the European Union, Bp., Korona, 1996
• Political Communication, 2004 (co-author: István Hegedűs-Szilágyi-Mihály Gál-Balázs Sipos)

Field of research

Navracsics’s field of research are comparative politics and internal politics in the European Union. Because he speaks both Serbian and Croatian, he wrote a number of analyses regarding the former Yugoslavia.

Notable facts

• At the invitation of the presidency he wrote about the ground values of the party a manifesto
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  , after he organized several public debats on the topics of living standards, competitiveness, public services and justice. The manifesto was accepted by the 2007 Congress of the Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union
  Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union
  The Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union is a major conservative party in Hungary. At the 2010 election in Hungary, Fidesz-KDNP won a two-thirds majority of seats by gaining 52% of the votes, with Fidesz winning 227 seats and KDNP winning 36...
  
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• He was elected „Teacher of the Year 2007” by the students of ELTE.

External links

• Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union
• The Hungarian Parliament
• the manifesto