predecessor successor birth_place president party office primeminister birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
frits union -rrb- jános martonyi géza jeszenszky bolkestein -lrb- internal market , taxation and customs algirdas and anti-fraud -rrb- ferenc somogyi jános martonyi Šemeta -lrb- taxation and customs union , audit budapest , hungary josé manuel barroso socialist party european foreign affairs of hungary commissioner for taxation and customs union minister of péter medgyessy gyula horn 3 july 1939 22 november 2004 27 may 2002 15 july 1994 kovácslászló2014.jpg lászló kovács -lrb- politician -rrb-
 9 february 2010 1 november 2004 8 july 1998 lászló kovács
lászló kovács -lrb- politician -rrb-

`` this article is about the politician .
see also lászló kovács -lrb- cinematographer -rrb- . ''
lászló kovács -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born 3 july 1939 -rrb- is a hungarian politician and diplomat , former european commissioner for taxation and customs union .
he was the foreign minister of hungary twice , from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004 .
he also served as chairman of the hungarian socialist party -lrb- mszp -rrb- from 1998 to 2004 .
