This project has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
(Grant Agreement n. 669194)
(Budapest, 3/4/1931 - Budapest, 15/10/2008)
Deputy Head - Department for Foreign Affairs in the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1968-1969)Head - Public Relations Office of the Executive Council (1969-1980)
Minister - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1983-1989)
As a conservative Communist politician actively supported the censorship in the Public Relations Office. As a minister he intended to avoid any risky action in foreign policy.
|
As one of the Central Committee secretaries he was responsible for the foreign policy of the state party. He supported to manage a rapprochement with the EEC. |
|
Since his vice presidency he was the permanent representative of Hungary in the CMEA, he supervised the talks with the EEC and managed an active economic policy with the Western countries. He did not support to conclude a general trade agreeme... |
|
He was the key figure representative of the national bank towards the West, the Eastern banker and businessman who all along remained Communist. He acquired several loans to Hungary to develop the national economy, but publicly never supported... |
|
As the supervisor of the economic policy was involved in the negotiations with the EEC, he urged and promoted the new wave of economic reforms during the 1980s. |
|
One of the leading figures of the younger reformist wing of the party. Since 1982-83 he wished and urged a rapprochement with the EEC. In 1987-88 he was the member of the Committee for International Economic Relations, when the agreement betwe... |
|
One of the young reformist inside the party apparatus. As ambassador in Bonn, he intensified the Hungarian–West-German relations, he urged and promoted to conclude a general, political agreement with the EEC. |
|
As the economic secretary of the Central Committee he was responsible for the preparation of proposals dealing with economic policy and foreign economy. As the member of the older generation party apparatchiks, he did not supported a radical o... |
