EP cttee maintains position not to support Trocsanyi's designation

The Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament on Monday confirmed its position that there is a conflict of interest between the post of commissioner to which Laszlo Trocsanyi, Hungary's former justice minister, has been designated and the activities of a law firm associated with him. The committee interviewed Trocsanyi last Thursday and established the conflict of interest in a secret ballot. Trocsanyi, an MEP of ruling Fidesz, has been designated to lead the Neighbourhood and Enlargement portfolio. The government communications centre said that the "real crime" Trocsanyi had committed as justice minister was to "help protect Hungary from migration". The European Parliament's "pro-migration" deputies, however, "won't have a European Commissioner who closed down Hungary's borders before the migrants", the centre said in a statement.