Katalin Cseh was born on 29 June 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[3] Her early education was at Toldy Ferenc High School in Budapest, Hungary.[4][5] She graduated from Semmelweis University. In 2015, she obtained a master's degree in Health Economics, Policy, and Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam.[6] In the same year, Cseh co-founded Momentum Movement group with nine others.[6] The group campaigned against the Hungarian government's decision to bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. They petitioned for a referendum on the issue and garnered more than 266,000 signatures. This resulted in the government withdrawing their bid.[7]
Momentum Movement became a centrist political party in March 2017.[7] In August 2017, she was appointed to the governing board of the party.[6] Cseh was a candidate for the party in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election.[8] The party did not win any seats in parliament, and the governing board (including Cseh) resigned.[9][10]
In addition to her committee assignments, Cseh is part of the parliament's delegation for relations with the United States.[3] She is also a supporter of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption,[16] the MEP Alliance for Mental Health[17] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.[18]
In September 2022, Cseh was the recipient of the People's Choice: Covid-19 Response Award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards.[19] In March 2024, she was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award at that year's MEP Awards ceremony.[20]
Political positions
In 2020, Cseh and Hilde Vautmans initiated an open letter, in which a group of 23 members of the Renew Europe group called on Josep Borrell to push for coordinated sanctions targeted at Chinese leaders and officials responsible for human rights violations in the Xinjiang re-education camps and in Hong Kong.[21]
References
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^"ALDE Group becomes Renew Europe". Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. 18 June 2019. Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.