Sheltered workshops: new approach needed 2013. 03. 27. Hungarian EPP Group MEP Ádám Kósa with his German fellow MEP Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, in cooperation with the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD) held a conference today in the European Parliament on the evolving concept of sheltered workshops in the EU. The aim of the event was to explore whether the sheltered workshops model complies with the objectives of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) - which is centered on building a more inclusive society - and discuss the way forward, also provide recommendations to the EU institutions.
Equal access to private cars for people with disabilities 2013. 03. 20. A workshop was organised today in Brussels aimed at easing the transport of millions with disabilities in Europe. EPP Group MEPs Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Ádám Kósa and Werner Kuhn and representatives of DG Justice of the European Commission as well as civil stakeholders and experts participated at the event. The opportunities the car industry may have in terms of production of accessible private cars and innovative solutions the industry is currently developing were discussed at the workshop.
The European External Action Service aims at more transparency and the strengthening of geographical balance 2013. 03. 20. Today the Committee on Budgetary Control in the European Parliament voted on the 2011 discharge reports among them the discharge of the European External Action Service. EPP Group shadow Rapporteur of the document is MEP Tamás Deutsch, Vice-President of the Budgetary Control Committee.
Ádám Kósa, the MEP who speaks the 24th language 2013. 03. 14. 6 March: my colleague and I have an appointment on the 12th floor of the ASP in the office of Hungarian MEP Ádám Kósa. Ádám Kósa is special in that he was born deaf. His parents are deaf, as are his wife and two young boys.
Constitutional changes in Hungary: Left-wing and liberal groups of the EP need to stop playing irresponsible party politics 2013. 03. 12. Press Release of the Hungarian EPP Group Delegation - The Hungarian EPP Group (Fidesz) Delegation made the following declaration in response to the statements of the left-wing and liberal groups of the European Parliament on the constitutional changes in Hungary:
Roma women are the most vulnerable 2013. 03. 12. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission welcomed members of the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality at a working breakfast in Strasbourg. MEP Lívia Járóka spoke about the situation of marginalized women and the objectives of her upcoming report on the social inclusion of Roma women.
International Women’s Day: Seminar on the effects of economic crisis on women 2013. 03. 08. The European Office of the Oslo Region organizes a seminar to celebrate the International Women's Day in Brussels. At the event titled 'Equal suffrage and women’s opportunities in today’s Europe' MEP Lívia Járóka holds a keynote speech on the European economic crisis from a gender perspective as well as the prospects of the social inclusion of the most disadvantaged women.
First sign language training course held in the EP 2013. 02. 28. Following the adoption of the Report on the mobility and inclusion of people with disabilities covering the years between 2010 and 2020, and in response to the European Commission's Disability Strategy in 2011, Ádám Kósa, Chairman of the EP Disability Intergroup and the only deaf and sign language user Member of the European Parliament, attended the first-ever sign language pilot training course in the European Parliament today.
EU Employment Guidelines for 2013 adopted 2013. 02. 06. "Today, the European Parliament gave a clear signal to Member States' governments that they have to make further commitments to ensure the implementation of the EU2020 Strategy, with special focus on job creation and stimulating growth. It is regretful that in the European debate on employment policy, there is still a lack of reference to the disadvantaged people, people with disabilities in particular", said Csaba Őry MEP, EPP Group Coordinator in the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, and Ádám Kósa MEP, EPP Group Spokesman on the dossier and the only deaf Member of the European Parliament, following the adoption of a Resolution on the 2013 Employment Guidelines. These guidelines endorse the original 2010 Employment Guidelines.