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Hungary's Presidency of the Council in 2024 is the final nation in the twelfth trio of Council Presidencies together with Spain and Belgium, which began on 1 July 2023 and will last until the end of 2024. It is Hungary's second Presidency of the council, after its first in 2011. Hungary succeeded Belgium as president on 1 July 2024.
January 1 – Restrictions are lifted on the construction of new wind power plants [1]; January 15 – Construction of the Southern Ring Rail begins in Budapest. [2]January 27 – László Toroczkai says at a conference that his Our Homeland Movement would lay claim to a Hungarian-populated region in western Ukraine if the war led to Ukraine losing its statehood.
The presidency's function is to chair meetings of the council, determine its agendas, set a work program and facilitate dialogue both at Council meetings and with other EU institutions. The presidency is currently, as of January 2025, held by Poland. Three successive presidencies are known as presidency trios.
According to a statement from the Hungarian Presidency, the cube logo presented alongside the “MEGA” slogan was inspired by the “world-famous Hungarian invention, the Rubik’s cube ...
In July 2024, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán announced undergoing several uncoordinated meetings that he referred to as "peace missions", visiting President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv before traveling to Moscow to meet with President of Russia Vladimir Putin, followed with him visiting Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping, then traveling to the United States to attend the 2024 ...
January 1 – After midnight, Péter Magyar holds a New Year's speech in which he calls for early elections. [1] There is no presidential speech from Tamás Sulyok. Land crossings on the Hungary–Romania border open, as Romania joins the Schengen Area [2]
The opposition alliance United for Hungary called for the direct election of the President of the Republic in their manifesto for the 2022 parliamentary election, which would require amending or replacing the current constitution. [3] On 25 February, opposition parties held a rally in Budapest calling for direct presidential elections. [4]
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