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József Bíró

(Budapest, 13/2/1921 - Budapest, 18/5/2001)

Deputy Minister - Ministry of Foreign Trade (1962-1963)
Minister - Ministry of Foreign Trade (1963-1979)
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Short bio

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.

Relations

János Nyerges

Since the early 1950s he was a Hungarian representative in several international organizations and meetings, he managed the talks with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. However, during the 1980s he rigidly opposed concluding a genera...

János Fekete

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...

Péter Balázs

As a diplomat in Brussels, he represented the official Hungarian standpoint, participated several meetings to coordinate the viewpoint of socialist states. However, he built good unofficial relations with the EEC apparatus in Brussels.

Antal Apró

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...

Tibor Antalpéter

A leading expert of Western economies and the EEC in the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

Jenő Fock

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.

Péter Veress

He, as foreign trade minister, had several meetings with EEC representatives. However, he insisted on concluding an agreement with the EEC solely in accordance with the GATT regulation.

Béla Szalai

Since the late 1960s he urged informal Hungary–EEC bilateral talks and to analyse more intensively the Western integration.

Kallós Ödön

During his presidency the Chamber trasformed from the closed club of foreign trade enterprises to an open business federation, which promoted actively Hungarian exports. He personally initiated the series of Hungarian Economic Days abroad, he ...

Key Documents

Our relations with the Common Market
MNL OL XIX-A-90-c 165. d. | 2-0041/101/1965

The report suggested a modified political line, which would boost concrete economic profit without abandoning the conceptual integrity of CMEA’s non-recognition policy. - Available here.

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