György Schöpflin

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György Schöpflin (2014)

György Schöpflin (born November 24, 1939 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian politician of Fidesz - Hungarian Citizens' Union , author and political scientist .

Life

Schöpflin lived in England and Scotland (UK) from 1950 to 2004. After completing his studies at the University of Glasgow , he completed a master's program at the College of Europe in Bruges. From 1963 to 1967 he worked for Chatham House in London; then he worked for the BBC until 1976. Schöpflin has been a professor at University College London since 1976 , where he has taught at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies since 1998 as a professor and Jean Monnet expert. Schöpflin has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004 . As an author, he has written several books on the political situation in Eastern Europe. In March 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from Tallinn University .

In August 2016, Schöpflin made headlines when he recommended in a debate on Twitter with a Human Rights Watch employee that the Hungarian border fence be equipped with pig's heads to deter refugees.

Fonts (selection)

  • Politics in Eastern Europe 1945–1992. Blackwell, 1993.
  • Nations, Identity, Power. Hurst, 2000.
  • Myths and Nationhood. Hurst, 1997.
  • State Building in the Balkans: Dilemmas on the Eve of the 21st Century. Longo, 1998.
  • Az identitás dilemmái. Attractor, 2004.
  • The Dilemmas of Identity. Tallinn University Press, 2010.
  • Politics, Illusions, Fallacies. Tallinn University Press, 2012.

Web links

Commons : György Schöpflin  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siobhan Fenton: Put pig heads on border fences to deter Muslim refugees, Hungarian MEP suggests . In: The Independent , August 22, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ Thomas Schmid : The pig system . In: Die Welt Kompakt , October 6, 2016, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Schöpflin, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician (Fidesz), MEP, author and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary