Biografía
Péter Balázs is Professor Emeritus at Central European University in Budapest. He was Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010 and the country’s first European Commissioner, responsible for Regional Policy, in 2004. A career diplomat, he served as Hungary’s Ambassador to Germany and to the European Union and played a leading role in Hungary’s accession to the Union. His research covers enlargement, the institutions of the Union and the place of Central Europe within it.