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(Kispest, 17/5/1916 - Budapest, 22/5/2001)
Economic Policy Secretary - Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers' Party (1957-1961)Vice-president - Executive Council (1961-1967)
Prime Minister - Prime Ministers Office (1967-1975)
He had a crucial role in the launching the economic reform from the mid-sixties. As a Prime Minister he urged and supported the deeper cooperation of the CMEA countries and the economic opening towards the West.
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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... |
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As one of the older generation orthodox communists, he never questioned the Soviet viewpoint on Western integration. However, during the CMEA talks he strongly propagated the Hungarian stance to deepen the Eastern integration and the closest c... |
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As a worker origin trade apparatchik he always followed the official political line, as a foreign trade minister he carefuly supported the New Economic Mechanism, but also served after the fall of the reform. |
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Since the late 1960s he urged informal Hungary–EEC bilateral talks and to analyse more intensively the Western integration. |
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No. 20 022/1968 resolution on our relations with the Common Market
MNL OL XIX-A-90-a 83. d. | 20022/1968
The Committee for International Economic Relations passed a resolution requiring Hungary to initiate, within CMEA, a re-evaluation and better coordination regarding CMEA–EEC relations. - Available here. |
