MEP interview: Mr Ádám KÓSA
CoverAGE - Issue 120 - December 2011 (Special announcement)
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Interviews
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2012. 01. 10.
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2010. 02. 11.
MEP Ádám Kósa speaks to Independent Living News!
Hungarian lawyer, Ádám Kósa, is the first deaf person and sign language user to be elected to the European Parliament. On top of this success in June 2009, he has also recently been nominated as President of the European Parliament's Disability Intergroup. The re-established Intergroup was launched with a New Year's Cocktail in Brussels on the 27th of January. At the launch, the Intergroup also presented the Disability Pact for 2011 - 2021, proposed by the European Disability Forum (EDF). MEP Ádám Kósa has answered the following questions for readers of Independent Living News!
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2009. 08. 07.
Law on sign language: two decades' of struggling
The Hungarian government has postponed for years to pass a law that grants the right of sign language use for the deaf - though the people concerned have been requested such a law many times. The parliament will discuss the draft motion in September, which, if approved, would ease the education of tens of hundreds of children and would assure the accessibility of public services, labour and information for tens of thousands of deaf. Magyar Hirlap interviewed Mr Adam Kosa, MEP of Fidesz, President of Hungarian Association of Deaf and Hard of Hearing persons in Hungary (SINOSZ).
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