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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 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]
“MEGA” motto bears an uncanny resemblance to the slogan of a certain former US president who has often heaped praise on the Hungarian strongman leader Viktor Orbán.
Hungary's parliament on Monday elected a new president after its previous head of state resigned in a scandal over a pardon she granted to an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case. Lawmakers in ...
The Hungarian parliament approved a reform to improve judicial independence in order to unlock the EU funds (3 May). [65] A clear majority of the European Parliament approved a resolution which questions Hungary's ability to hold the 2024 presidency of the Council of the European Union (1 June). [66]
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.
The president of the republic, elected by the National Assembly every five years, has a largely ceremonial role, but they are nominally the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and their powers include the nomination of the prime minister, who is to be elected by a majority of the votes of the members of Parliament, based on the recommendation made by the president of the republic.