Gábor Harangozó is a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 politician and Member of the European Parliament

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 for the Hungarian Socialist Party

Hungarian Socialist Party

The Hungarian Socialist Party describes itself as a social democratic party in Hungary. It is the partial successor of the communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party , which ruled Hungary between 1956 and 1989. The decision to declare the party a successor of the MSZMP was controversial, and...

, part of the Party of European Socialists

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Harangozó spent his childhood years in Szekszárd

Szekszárd

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. After completing his secondary education, he enrolled in the University of West Hungary

University of West Hungary

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 in 1995, where he received a degree in Agribusiness. He then went on to study European Funds Management in the Dutch CAH Dronten. From 2002 he represented the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg in Brussels

Brussels

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He was elected an MEP

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 in the 2004 general elections, and he was the youngest Hungarian MEP then. In 2010 he became member of the National Assembly of Hungary

National Assembly of Hungary

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He is married and has one child. His younger brother Tamás Harangozó is also a representative in the Hungarian Parliament.