European institutions interventions
5 Oct 2021

European institutions interventions.

Interventions by Members of the European Parliament and Commission.

Karima Delli

President of the Committee on Transport and Tourism of the European Parliament

From 2009 to 2014, she was a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and a substitute in the Committee on Regional Development (DEVE)

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From 2014 to 2019, she was a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN), of which she was elected chair in 2017, and a substitute in the EMPL and Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) Committees. In 2019, she was reappointed as Chair of the TRAN Committee and, after having served as a substitute in the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) until 2020, she has served as a substitute in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) since 2020.

István Ujhelyi

Vice-Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism of the European Parliament

He joined the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) in 1993 where he has served in many leading positions.

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He was StateSecretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development (2006-2009) and State-Secretary in Prime Minister’s Office (2009-2010). After the EP elections in 2014 he became Chair of Tourism Task Force in the TRAN Committee where he served as Vice-Chair. In 2019 he is re-elected as MEP, and Vice-Chair of the TRAN Committee. During the past years he has initiated tourism related programmes, as EU-China Tourism Year 2018, and European Capital of Tourism project, aka “European Capital of Smart Tourism”.

Marie-Hélène Pradines

Tourism & Textiles Head of Unit, DG GROW, European Commission

Before joining the European Commission, she worked as administrator in the French Ministry of economy and finance and then as deputy financial adviser at the Representation of France to the European Union

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Marie-Hélène Pradines joined the European Commission in 2004, where she started working for the Directorate-General for Human Resources and Security (DG HR). Between 2009 and 2014, she worked as member of Cabinet of Vice-President Barrot (Justice, Freedom and Security) and of Vice-President Šefčovič (Inter-institutional relations and administration). Back in DG HR, she has been head of two units before joining DG GROW in 2020.