EP committee sees conflict of interest concerning Trocsanyi's EC candidacy

The legal committee of the European Parliament (JURI) has established that there is a conflict of interest between Hungarian MEP Laszlo Trocsanyi's candidacy for EU commissioner and law firm Nagy and Trocsanyi's receiving orders from the Hungarian state, JURI vice-chairman Sergey Lagodinsky told reporters in Brussels on Thursday. According to Lagodinsky, 11 members of the body voted against and 9 supported that the foreign affairs committee of the EP should hear Trocsanyi, who is the Hungarian government's candidate for commissioner in charge of neighbourhood policy and EU enlargement. Trocsanyi said in a statement that a political decision lacking any factual basis had been made and he would take the necessary legal steps.