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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.
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 July 2024, held by Hungary. Three successive presidencies are known as presidency trios.
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.
“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.
Some European Union leaders protested on Tuesday what they see as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's misuse of the bloc's rotating presidency, with many including those in the EU's executive ...
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]
On 5 August 2024 70 Member of European Parliament officially requested that Hungary's membership in the Schengen Area be cancelled, because they felt that a recent Hungarian decision to open Hungarian visas to workers from eight countries, among which Russia and Belarus, was contrary to the spirit of the agreement.
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.