News in Brief PM Orbán: Gaining EC’s enlargement and neighborhood post was Hungary’s “biggest diplomatic success of the past ten years” Nov 22, 2019 PM Orbán said that over the past ten years Hungary had never managed to attain comparable influence in the EU, and the post would be “the most important” of the next five years.
News in Brief Olivér Várhelyi questioned at EP commissioner hearing Nov 15, 2019 Olivér Várhelyi's only objective is “to represent the European Union’s political priorities towards our enlargement and neighborhood partners and to work in a genuine European spirit in the Western Balkans, as well as in the relationship with our Eastern and Southern neighbors.”
News in Brief Olivér Várhelyi unanimously supported by EP’s legal affairs committee Nov 13, 2019 The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee “has established no conflict of interest” in connection with the European commissioner nominees of France, Hungary and Romania.