Wednesday, 11 November 2009  Central Europe Activ on the new
Hungarian Commissioner  Germany has nominated a very odd
candidate for the next European Commission, but now Dániel from
the Central Europe Activ blog reports about the coming Hungarian
Commissioner Laszlo Andor - and the article doesn't paint the
most promising picture: "Mr Andor’s is a non-executive member of
EBRD, Europe’s development bank. He was ejected to this position
when his small circle of far-far left intellectuals in a far-far
left periodical called Eszmélet (Consciousness) stood behind the
most right-wing pragmatist later prime minister and party chief,
Mr Gyurcsány [...]  He was a kind of a politician, every bending
the truth, also a gentle man, a guy who liked to play soccer
with the students, who had strange friends ‘in the movement’ in
Western Europe. He was never elected to any other position,
never ran for office and never took a job in any branches of the
government of his country. " (via Jon on Twitter) I recommend
reading the f