Boglárka Bólya

Ministerial Commissioner Responsible for the Promotion of Sovereignty Reform of the European Union

Boglárka Bólya LLM is a Ministerial Commissioner at the Ministry of European Union Affairs of Hungary responsible for the promotion of the sovereignty reform of the European Union, in which function she is coordinating the EU competence review. She also serves as Director General of Patriots.eu, European political party.

She is an honorary lecturer at the National University of Public Service, co-founder and ministerial appointee of the Europe of Nations Career Programme. Previously, she served as Ministerial Commissioner in charge of preparing the 2024 Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, staff training and relations with civil society organisations. She graduated summa cum laude in law from Pázmány Péter Catholic University and obtained an LLM degree with distinction in European Union law in Brussels. From 2019, she served as Deputy State Secretary for EU Relations at the Ministry of Justice, then as Chief Political Adviser to János Bóka, State Secretary for EU Affairs and EU Sherpa. Between 2003 and 2019, she worked at the European Parliament within the European People’s Party Group as a political and legal adviser and later as Head of the Legal and Home Affairs Working Group; from 2017 to 2019, she served as Adviser for Legal Affairs and Relations with National Parliaments to the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani. During Hungary’s 2011 EU Presidency, she chaired the Council Working Group responsible for drafting Croatia’s EU Accession Treaty.