Education
University of Horticulture and Food Industry. Eötvös Loránd University.
University of Horticulture and Food Industry. Eötvös Loránd University.
She was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1998 and also in 2002 in Fejér county. She worked her way up the bureaucracy of the Magyar Szocialiste Munkaspart (Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party), through the Procedural Committee, in the Committee of the European Integration Affairs between 1998–2002 and in the Committee of Foreign Affairs and of Environmental Protection since 2002. She took part in the work of the Hungarian-English and Hungarian-American branch of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, as vice-president
Her committee work included the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Delegation for relations with Canada and the European Union-European Economic Area. She was a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and for the Committee on Budgetary Control.
Editorial Herczog gained some attention for an attempted intervention into a speech being made by Nigel Farage Member of the European Parliament, a representative for United Kingdom Independence Party. "And Mr. Farage, I’d like to say something Hungarian quotation for you, it is good that you are here because if the monkey goes up to the tree, it is better seen how red is his popo."
The video of this performance became widely popular, partially on the basis of Farage"s attack on the appointment of the top European roles of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and President of the European Council, but also for the unusual language employed.
Editorial Herczog has worked for the following:
The University of Horticulture (food conservation engineer) (1985). Eötvös Loránd University (Portuguese Department) (1992).
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (research fellow) (1985-1989).
University of Horticulture (professor"s assistant) (1989-1994). Unilever Hungary (1994-1997). Imperial Chemical Industries Hungary (1997-2004).
National Starch Chemical (Manager, Central and Eastern European Region).
Being leader of the female committee of the socialist group in Strasbourg she was also a member of the group leadership.
Editorial Herczog has been a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, and of the Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialiste Munkaspart (Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party)) since 1989. She became a member of the national presidency of the Magyar Szocialiste Munkaspart (Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party) in 2007. Herczog was a member of the Hungarian delegation of the European Commission since 1999.
Editorial has been a member of the European Parliament since May 2004.
She was also member of the Small and Medium Enterprises Working Group and the Lisbon Strategy Working Group. She is a Presidency member of the following European organizations: European Energy Forum, European Internet Foundation, Forum for the Future of Nuclear Energy, Cangaroo Group, and the European Parliament-Business Forum.
