The Hungarian foreign minister is to be nominated by his government to be the country's next EU commissioner.
The announcement was made by Ildiko Lendvai, the leader of the Socialist Party group in parliament, reported Hungarian news agency MTI.
Laszlo Kovacs, who also leads the governing Socialist Party, will start in Brussels on 1 November.
He will replace fellow Hungarian Peter Balazs who joined the Brussels executive on 1 May and who works on the regional policy portfoli...
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