Zoltán Massay-Kosubek

Archives for Climate & Environment

Look at the sky – the top 5 priorities on European air quality and health in 2019

February 3, 2019

2018 was a crucial year for the public health campaign to improve European air quality, with the devastating health impact of air pollution dominating to a large extent the public debate. As well as the ongoing fitness check of European air quality legislation, new EU-level standards have been negotiated to limit not only CO2 emissions… » read more

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Air quality, Civil Society (NGOs), Climate & Environment, Energy, Health & Consumers, Public Health, Sustainable Dev.

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Wind of change: Air and Health in 2019

March 28, 2018

In the context of shaping the Future of Europe, the health community can bring the Wind of Change to the EU institutional renewal process by making the case for the added value of EU action on air pollution at European, national and local level, by pointing out the health benefits. Why is air pollution the… » read more

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Air quality, Civil Society (NGOs), Climate & Environment, Environment, European Integration, Health & Consumers, Public Health, Social Europe, Transport

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How many scandals does Europe need to clean its air?

February 4, 2018

It is astonishing that even the current, ‘doing less’ Commission which believes in no regulation and self-regulation, decided to act on countries breaching the air pollution standards. But is it enough to make a difference? How many scandals do we need until policy action on air quality is being seriously considered? Air pollution infrigements on… » read more

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Air quality, Civil Society (NGOs), Climate & Environment, Environment, EU news & updates, European citizens, Health & Consumers, Public Health

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Can the CETA Vote Raise the ’Dead’ Grand Coalition?

January 10, 2017

Brussels, 10th January 2016 – Many claim that the Grand Coalition (the legislative cooperation between the social and christian democrats) is ’dead’ but to believe it, it should be put to the test: the upcoming votes in the European Parliament on the approval of CETA, the EU-Canada trade deal will tell the truth. European Parliament… » read more

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Civil Society (NGOs), Climate & Environment, Consumer Protection, EU Foreign Policy, EU news & updates, Health & Consumers, Public Health, Trade

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Chemical Coctails and the Way Forward in the Light of the Scientific and Legal Difficulties

May 6, 2012

“Don’t let something that doesn’t matter cause you to lose something that does.” ~Phil Torcivia The problem of Chemical coctails still emerges and can be considered as a relatively new field of chemicals. It is quite easy to understand why are chemical coctails in the very center of interests of scientific and legal professionals and… » read more

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Climate & Environment, Consumer Protection, Environment, Health & Consumers, Public Health

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Zoltán Massay-Kosubek

Zoltán is Hungarian qualified lawyer ⚖ and a Brussels-based European public health advocate. 💪 He shares his personal views here only.

Zoltán has a proven record on effective campaigning, project delivery and advocacy, and strategic planning, including staff and budget management. Zoltán has extensive knowledge of the Brussels based advocacy arena from a membership based NGO perspective and he is aware of the importance of the internal governance procedures. He has excellent understanding of international diplomacy.

A Hungarian qualified lawyer with a strong commitment to protecting the public interest, he has over 14 years of experience including on international and European affairs at the Ministry for Health of Hungary, as a lawyer-linguist at the European Court of Justice, and as a clerk in national courts.

Zoltán is fluent in English, French, German and native in Hungarian.

Zoltán tweets from @EU_ZMK.


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