László Kovács (politician)

László Kovács [ la ː slo ː kova ː ʧ ] ( born July 3, 1939 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician, he was several times Foreign Minister of Hungary and later European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union.

Private

Kovács is married and has one daughter.

Training

From 1953 to 1957 attended László Kovács Lajos - Petrik High School for Chemistry in Budapest. Kovács then studied from 1963 to 1968 Economics in Budapest.

Besides Hungarian, he also speaks fluent English and Russian.

Career in Hungary

He worked after 1968 in the apparatus of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. From 1989 to 1990 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between April and October 1989, he was a member of the Party Central Committee. He was in 1990 a member of the Committee for Foreign Policy of the Hungarian Parliament, which he chaired from 1993 to 1994. From 1994 to 1998 he was the first foreign minister. In 1998, he was Chairman of the Socialist Party of Hungary. After the defeat in the European elections, he did not run for the post of party chairman ( he was succeeded by István Hiller ). From 2002 to 2004 he was again foreign minister until he joined the European Commission, and was succeeded by Ferenc Somogyi.

Kovács 1990 Member of the Hungarian Parliament and member of the Presidium of the Socialist Party of Hungary.

Career in the European Union

In 2004 he was commissioner-designate for energy in the EU Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso. At his hearing before Parliament, he pointed out some deficiencies, which is why he was later given the responsibility for Taxation and Customs Union. Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs was Latvian.

He was inaugurated on November 18. He then resigned as a Member of Parliament. His term ended on December 31, 2006

Joaquín Almunia | Jose Manuel Barroso | Jacques Barrot | Joseph Borġ | Stavros Dimas | Benita Ferrero- Waldner | Ján Figel (until October 2009) | Mariann Fischer Boel | Franco Frattini ( until May 2008) | Dalia Grybauskaite (until July 2009) | Danuta Hübner (until July 2009) | Siim Kallas | László Kovács | Neelie Kroes | Markos Kyprianou (until March 2008) | Peter Mandelson (until October 2008) | Louis Michel (until July 2009) | Andris Piebalgs | Janez Potočnik | Charlie McCreevy | Viviane Reding | Olli Rehn | Vladimír Špidla | Günter Verheugen | Margot Wallström

Supplements: Catherine Ashton ( from October 2008) | Karel De Gucht ( from July 2009) | Meglena Kuneva (from January 2007) | Leonard Orban (from January 2007) | Paweł Samecki ( from July 2009) | Maroš Šefčovič ( from October 2009 ) | Algirdas Šemeta ( from July 2009) | Antonio Tajani (from May 2008) | Androulla Vassiliou (from March 2008)

Taxes: Hans von der Groeben | Henri Simonet | Richard Burke | Christopher Tugendhat

Customs Union: Finn Olav Gundelach | Étienne Davignon | Karl -Heinz Narjes

Taxation and Customs Union: Francis Cockfield | Christiane Scrivener | Mario Monti | Frits Bolkestein | Laszlo Kovacs | Algirdas Šemeta

Kingdom of Hungary (1867-1918): György Festetics | Béla Wenckheim | Kálmán Tisza | Béla Orczy | László Szőgyény - Marich | Géza Fejervary | Lajos Tisza | Gyula Andrássy | Géza Fejervary | Sámuel Jósika | Dezso Bánffy | Manó Széchenyi | Kalman Szell | Gyula Széchenyi | Károly Khuen Héderváry | István Tisza | Károly Khuen Héderváry | Géza Fejervary | Aladar Zichy | Károly Khuen Héderváry | László Lukács | István Burián | István Tisza | Ervin Roszner | Tivadar Batthyány | Aladar Zichy | Tivadar Batthyány

Republic of Hungary (1918-1919): Mihály Károlyi | Dénes Berinkey | Ferenc Harrer

Hungarian Soviet Republic ( 1919): Béla Kun | József Pogány | Béla Kun | Péter Agoston

Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1944): Gábor Tánczos | Márton Lovászy | József Somssich | Sándor Simonyi - Semadam | Pál Teleki | Imre Csáky | Pál Teleki | Gusztáv Gratz | Pál Teleki | Miklós Bánffy | Géza Daruváry | István Bethlen | Tibor Scitovszky | Lajos Walko | Gyula Károlyi | Lajos Walko | Endre Puky | Gyula Gombos | Kálmán Kánya | Béla Imredy | István Csáky | Pál Teleki | László Bárdossy | Ferenc Keresztes - Fischer | Miklós Kállay | Jenő Ghyczy | domes Sztojay | Gusztáv Hennyey |

State Hungary (1944-1945): Gábor Kemény | János Gyöngyösi

Republic of Hungary (1946-1949): János Gyöngyösi | Ernő Mihályfi | Erik Molnár

People's Republic of Hungary (1949-1989): László Rajk | Gyula Kállai | Károly Kiss | Erik Molnár | János Boldoczki | Imre Horváth | Imre Nagy | Imre Horváth | Endre Sík | János Péter | Frigyes Puja | Péter Várkonyi | Gyula Horn

Republic of Hungary (since 1989): Géza Jeszenszky | László Kovács | János Martonyi | László Kovács | Ferenc Somogyi | Kinga Göncz | Péter Balázs | János Martonyi

• Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hungary )
• MSZP member
• Member of the European Commission
• Support of the Norwegian Order of Merit ( Grand Cross )
• Carrier of Merit of the Republic of Hungary ( Commander with Star )
• Hungarian
• Born in 1939
• Man