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Foreign national is the newest Ministerial Commissioner in the Orbán government
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János Csák, the Minister for Culture and Innovation, has formally appointed Ballester Esquivias Rodrigo María as the Ministerial Commissioner for the Internationalisation of Hungarian Higher Education and Research.
According to the ministry, Rodrigo Ballester, a Spanish national, has more than two decades of international experience, having worked for 15 years in the EU institutions and five years as a member of the cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Education. He pursued education at the College of Europe and worked as an EU civil servant, attaining a broad knowledge in EU decision-making processes and internal structures. He has studied in several countries and has been a regular lecturer in EU law and EU affairs for 14 years, mainly at Sciences Po University in Paris.
As head of the MCC’s European Studies Workshop, Rodrigo Ballester frequently speaks at conferences and seminars and contributes to the press.
Ballester is fluent in five languages, but Hungarian is not one of them. According to his biography, which is publicly available on the MCC, he is only a beginner in Hungarian.
The objectives
According to the statement, the new ministerial commissioner’s tasks include renewing the internationalisation strategy of Hungarian higher education, expanding international mobility programmes, enhancing their efficiency and developing solutions to strengthen the participation of foreign students in Hungarian higher education.
LEGAL immigrants are often a huge asset to a country. ILLEGAL ALIENS, on the other hand, take 2-3 generations to become net contributors; in the meantime, they are a massive drain on resources and frequently the source of violent criminality. We only need to look at the big (and not only so big anymore) Western towns and cities to see what happens when you allow the worst-quality ILLEGAL migrants to swamp your country in their millions. No, thanks: not for Hungary!