Endre Juhász

Endre Juhász (born July 12, 1944 in Nagykörű ) is a Hungarian lawyer and judge at the European Court of Justice .

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Juhász studied law at the University of Szeged , where he graduated in 1967. In 1966 he had already joined the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Trade as a civil servant. In 1970 Juhász was admitted to the Hungarian bar after another exam. He finally completed postgraduate studies in comparative law at the University of Strasbourg in 1972. In 1973 Juhász was promoted to director of legislative affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Trade; In 1974 he moved to the Hungarian embassy in Brussels as the first commercial attaché . In 1979 he returned to Hungary and became director of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Trade. Another diplomatic activity followed: from 1983 he was first again first commercial attaché, then working as a commercial advisor at the Hungarian embassy in Washington, DC .

In 1989 Juhász returned to Hungary and became General Director in the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of International Economic Relations. During the accession negotiations between Hungary and the European Community in 1990/91, Juhász was general negotiator and then general secretary in the Ministry of International Economic Relations and head of the Office for European Affairs. After working as State Secretary in 1995 he became Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Head of the Diplomatic Mission of the Republic of Hungary to the European Union. From July 1998 he was again Hungary's chief negotiator for accession to the European Union. From May 2003 he was minister without portfolio for the coordination of questions of European integration in the government of Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy . Juhász has been a judge at the European Court of Justice since May 11, 2004 .

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• Endre Juhász at the European Court of Justice