Hungary PM Orban defends his candidate for EU executive


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  • Friday, 27 Sep 2019

FILE PHOTO: EU Commissioner-designate for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Laszlo Trocsanyi poses for a photo during a seminar of the new European Commission designated executives at the Chateau du Lac hotel in Genval, Belgium, September 12, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Prime Minister Viktor Orban had several solutions "in his pocket" after Hungary's candidate for the European Commission was rejected, he told state radio.

The EU transport commissioner-designate, Romanian socialist politician Rovana Plumb, and the proposed commissioner for EU enlargement, former Hungarian justice minister Laszlo Trocsanyi, were told their confirmation hearings could not go ahead because of inconsistencies in their financial statements, officials said on Thursday.

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