Edith Bauer

* Somorja, 30 Aug. 1946 / sociologist. ; ; Graduated from Somorja (1963), obtained an engineering degree from the College of Economics in Poznań (1968). In 1968–1969, he was a lecturer at the Slovak Association of Small-scale Cooperatives, then until 1983, he was a scientific associate at the Institute for Research on Living Standards in Poznań and a post-graduate student at the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and in 1984–1990, he was a senior scientific associate at the Institute for Social Development and Labor Research. From 1990, he was a senior scientific associate at the Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Between 1990 and 2004, he was a member of parliament, and from December 1995, he was also a Slovak member of the European Parliament. Between 1998 and 2002, he was the State Secretary of the Ministry of Social and Family Affairs. In 2004, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament. ; – He has published about 50 studies in the Czech-Slovak press. As a representative of the Slovak Parliament and the European Union, he regularly deals with minority issues. ; ; Works: The Socialist Way of Life, monograph, 1979, Present Value Changes in Slovak Society, thesis, Language, Values in the Slovak Nation, Washington 1994, Culture without Money, thesis, National Assembly of Slovakia, 22 April 1995, Basic Macroeconomic Proportions of the Development of the Slovak Economy (co-author), thesis, 1995. ;

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