{"id":1048097,"date":"2019-06-15T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=1048097"},"modified":"2019-06-15T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T02:37:14","slug":"v4-soon-to-name-own-candidate-for-ec-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-soon-to-name-own-candidate-for-ec-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"V4 Soon to Name Own Candidate for EC Presidency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>While participants of the Visegrad Countries (V4) PMs informal meeting refused to disclose any names, recent statements point in the direction that V4 countries want a say in deciding on the top jobs of the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Czech news outlet,\u00a0<em>Hospod\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9 noviny,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archiv.ihned.cz\/c1-66579400-sef-evropy-ma-byt-z-v4-pozaduje-babis-a-ostatni-lidri-stredni-evropy-na-predsedu-komise-prosazuji-slovaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was first<\/a>\u00a0to report at the end of May that\u00a0V4 countries would support Slovakian Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, the current vice-president of the European Commission (EC) for the EC presidency. The economic daily added that in the final discussions, V4s could eventually support Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier or World Bank\u00a0Vice-President Kristalina\u00a0Georgieva, provided that \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d would be appointed the EU\u2019s next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/v4-pms-informal-meeting-coordination-budapest-eu-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">informal meeting<\/a>\u00a0of the Visegrad Four Prime Ministers in Budapest on Thursday, the\u00a0Hungarian PM\u2019s press chief claimed that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/v4-pms-agree-to-present-united-front-at-eu-summit\/?fbclid=IwAR2CZWQ8-aShSULtuYTNHPwXeh-rb64pK2Y3BON4nMDYd8wUpfAVD0sFhdU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">V4 leaders agreed<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cpresent a united front on matters of European Union leadership positions and policy at next week\u2019s EU summit.\u201d Orb\u00e1n, in his regular radio interview on Friday\u00a0also insisted that \u201cthe V4 states would enforce their own interests when it came to deciding on EU leadership positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To date, no name has officially been given to the public by the leading V4 politicians, but speculations have arisen about certain potential candidates. Orb\u00e1n, for example, hinted that they gathered a positive-negative list about which V4s he would or would not support for the EC presidency. He, however, did not name anybody from the wish list, naming only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/timmermans-orban-is-not-authoritarian-but-shows-tendencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frans Timmermans<\/a>\u00a0from the negative side. (Fidesz long ago announced withdrawing its support of Manfred Weber, the Spitzenkandidat of Fidesz\u2019s European party family, EPP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, leftist daily\u00a0<em>N\u00e9pszava<\/em>, in reference to \u201cmultiple independent sources,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nepszava.hu\/3039464_az-eu-legfontosabb-posztjat-rohamozzak-a-visegradi-negyek-balos-es-jobbos-jeloltjuk-is-van\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0that although informally, the four indeed agreed on two potential names, one from the left and one from the right. The first being \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d seems to confirm earlier speculations, while the other is Polish Krzysztof\u00a0Szczerski, Secretary of State and Chief of the Cabinet in the Chancellery of the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EU leaders are due to meet next week (20-21 June) in Brussels to make decisions on\u00a0appointments\u00a0for the next cycle, so the official stance of the Visegrad prime ministers is needed to be revealed by then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>featured image: MTI\/PM\u2019s Press Office<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/v4-soon-to-name-own-candidate-for-ec-presidency\/\">hungarytoday.hu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>While participants of the Visegrad Countries (V4) PMs informal meeting refused to disclose any names, recent statements point in the direction that V4 countries want a say in deciding on the top jobs of the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Czech news outlet,\u00a0<em>Hospod\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9 noviny,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archiv.ihned.cz\/c1-66579400-sef-evropy-ma-byt-z-v4-pozaduje-babis-a-ostatni-lidri-stredni-evropy-na-predsedu-komise-prosazuji-slovaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was first<\/a>\u00a0to report at the end of May that\u00a0V4 countries would support Slovakian Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, the current vice-president of the European Commission (EC) for the EC presidency. The economic daily added that in the final discussions, V4s could eventually support Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier or World Bank\u00a0Vice-President Kristalina\u00a0Georgieva, provided that \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d would be appointed the EU\u2019s next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/v4-pms-informal-meeting-coordination-budapest-eu-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">informal meeting<\/a>\u00a0of the Visegrad Four Prime Ministers in Budapest on Thursday, the\u00a0Hungarian PM\u2019s press chief claimed that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/v4-pms-agree-to-present-united-front-at-eu-summit\/?fbclid=IwAR2CZWQ8-aShSULtuYTNHPwXeh-rb64pK2Y3BON4nMDYd8wUpfAVD0sFhdU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">V4 leaders agreed<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cpresent a united front on matters of European Union leadership positions and policy at next week\u2019s EU summit.\u201d Orb\u00e1n, in his regular radio interview on Friday\u00a0also insisted that \u201cthe V4 states would enforce their own interests when it came to deciding on EU leadership positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To date, no name has officially been given to the public by the leading V4 politicians, but speculations have arisen about certain potential candidates. Orb\u00e1n, for example, hinted that they gathered a positive-negative list about which V4s he would or would not support for the EC presidency. He, however, did not name anybody from the wish list, naming only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/timmermans-orban-is-not-authoritarian-but-shows-tendencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frans Timmermans<\/a>\u00a0from the negative side. (Fidesz long ago announced withdrawing its support of Manfred Weber, the Spitzenkandidat of Fidesz\u2019s European party family, EPP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, leftist daily\u00a0<em>N\u00e9pszava<\/em>, in reference to \u201cmultiple independent sources,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nepszava.hu\/3039464_az-eu-legfontosabb-posztjat-rohamozzak-a-visegradi-negyek-balos-es-jobbos-jeloltjuk-is-van\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0that although informally, the four indeed agreed on two potential names, one from the left and one from the right. The first being \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d seems to confirm earlier speculations, while the other is Polish Krzysztof\u00a0Szczerski, Secretary of State and Chief of the Cabinet in the Chancellery of the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EU leaders are due to meet next week (20-21 June) in Brussels to make decisions on\u00a0appointments\u00a0for the next cycle, so the official stance of the Visegrad prime ministers is needed to be revealed by then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>featured image: MTI\/PM\u2019s Press Office<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/v4-soon-to-name-own-candidate-for-ec-presidency\/\">hungarytoday.hu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1048098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>V4 Soon to Name Own Candidate for EC Presidency? &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-soon-to-name-own-candidate-for-ec-presidency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"V4 Soon to Name Own Candidate for EC Presidency? &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While participants of the Visegrad Countries (V4) PMs informal meeting refused to disclose any names, recent statements point in the direction that V4 countries want a say in deciding on the top jobs of the European Union. Czech news outlet,\u00a0Hospod\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9 noviny,\u00a0was first\u00a0to report at the end of May that\u00a0V4 countries would support Slovakian Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, the current vice-president of the European Commission (EC) for the EC presidency. The economic daily added that in the final discussions, V4s could eventually support Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier or World Bank\u00a0Vice-President Kristalina\u00a0Georgieva, provided that \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d would be appointed the EU\u2019s next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. After the\u00a0informal meeting\u00a0of the Visegrad Four Prime Ministers in Budapest on Thursday, the\u00a0Hungarian PM\u2019s press chief claimed that the\u00a0V4 leaders agreed\u00a0to \u201cpresent a united front on matters of European Union leadership positions and policy at next week\u2019s EU summit.\u201d Orb\u00e1n, in his regular radio interview on Friday\u00a0also insisted that \u201cthe V4 states would enforce their own interests when it came to deciding on EU leadership positions.\u201d To date, no name has officially been given to the public by the leading V4 politicians, but speculations have arisen about certain potential candidates. Orb\u00e1n, for example, hinted that they gathered a positive-negative list about which V4s he would or would not support for the EC presidency. He, however, did not name anybody from the wish list, naming only\u00a0Frans Timmermans\u00a0from the negative side. (Fidesz long ago announced withdrawing its support of Manfred Weber, the Spitzenkandidat of Fidesz\u2019s European party family, EPP). In addition, leftist daily\u00a0N\u00e9pszava, in reference to \u201cmultiple independent sources,\u201d\u00a0claimed\u00a0that although informally, the four indeed agreed on two potential names, one from the left and one from the right. The first being \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d seems to confirm earlier speculations, while the other is Polish Krzysztof\u00a0Szczerski, Secretary of State and Chief of the Cabinet in the Chancellery of the President. 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Czech news outlet,\u00a0Hospod\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9 noviny,\u00a0was first\u00a0to report at the end of May that\u00a0V4 countries would support Slovakian Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, the current vice-president of the European Commission (EC) for the EC presidency. The economic daily added that in the final discussions, V4s could eventually support Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier or World Bank\u00a0Vice-President Kristalina\u00a0Georgieva, provided that \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d would be appointed the EU\u2019s next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. After the\u00a0informal meeting\u00a0of the Visegrad Four Prime Ministers in Budapest on Thursday, the\u00a0Hungarian PM\u2019s press chief claimed that the\u00a0V4 leaders agreed\u00a0to \u201cpresent a united front on matters of European Union leadership positions and policy at next week\u2019s EU summit.\u201d Orb\u00e1n, in his regular radio interview on Friday\u00a0also insisted that \u201cthe V4 states would enforce their own interests when it came to deciding on EU leadership positions.\u201d To date, no name has officially been given to the public by the leading V4 politicians, but speculations have arisen about certain potential candidates. Orb\u00e1n, for example, hinted that they gathered a positive-negative list about which V4s he would or would not support for the EC presidency. He, however, did not name anybody from the wish list, naming only\u00a0Frans Timmermans\u00a0from the negative side. (Fidesz long ago announced withdrawing its support of Manfred Weber, the Spitzenkandidat of Fidesz\u2019s European party family, EPP). In addition, leftist daily\u00a0N\u00e9pszava, in reference to \u201cmultiple independent sources,\u201d\u00a0claimed\u00a0that although informally, the four indeed agreed on two potential names, one from the left and one from the right. The first being \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d seems to confirm earlier speculations, while the other is Polish Krzysztof\u00a0Szczerski, Secretary of State and Chief of the Cabinet in the Chancellery of the President. 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