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Péter Balázs

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Péter Balázs (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈpeːtɛr ˈbɒlaːʒ], born 5 December 1941) is a Hungarian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010. In addition to his native Hungarian, he speaks English, French, German and Russian. He graduated from Budapest School of Economics in 1963 and worked in the Hungarian government until 1 May 2004, when his country joined the European Union and was appointed to the European Commission with Michel Barnier under Romano Prodi. He became the Hungarian European Commissioner holding the Regional Policy portfolio until the end of the Prodi Commission on 21 November 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Péter Balázs has received more than 30,058 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Péter Balázs is the 16,148th most popular politician (down from 14,702nd in 2019), the 696th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 586th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular Hungarian Politician.

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  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Péter Balázs ranks 16,148 out of 19,576. Before him are José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez, Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, Amit Shah, Fred M. Vinson, James Goldsmith, and Peter Sutherland. After him are Robert Morris, Lugal-Anne-Mundu, Leonel Mário d'Alva, Igor Korobov, Sæbbi of Essex, and Liviu Dragnea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Péter Balázs ranks 532. Before him are Wolfgang Fahrian, John Nicholson, Jürgen Nöldner, Kaarlo Kangasniemi, Long John Baldry, and Jean-Jacques Schuhl. After him are Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Michael Howard, Kim Eui-tae, Oja Kodar, Monika Maron, and Tony Dunne.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Péter Balázs ranks 696 out of 1,077. Before him are Miklós Szilvási (1925), Ferenc Németh (1936), Tibor Pézsa (1935), József Gelei (1938), József Kiprich (1963), and Tivadar Monostori (1936). After him are Elemér Szathmáry (1926), Árpád Bárány (1931), Attila Dargay (1927), Gene Mako (1916), Sándor Kisfaludy (1772), and Kinga Göncz (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Hungary

Among politicians born in Hungary, Péter Balázs ranks 133. Before him are József Szlávy (1818), Anna Kéthly (1889), Károly Kárpáti (1906), József Szájer (1961), Cécile Tormay (1876), and Béla Las-Torres (1890). After him are Kinga Göncz (1947), István Csurka (1934), Péter Szijjártó (1978), István Tarlós (1948), Gergely Karácsony (1975), and Tamás Faragó (1952).

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