Palkovics has been a department head at Budapest’s Technical University and worked German braking systems manufacturer Knorr-Bremse’s Hungarian unit.

He helped to establish the technical college in Kecskemét, central Hungary, where German car maker Mercedes Hungary is headquartered.

 “Everyone with a degree should be able to find a job,” he said.

Balog added that Palkovics had been picked to implement the new system whereby the government elects university chancellors, whose job will be to keep the institutions’ finances on the straight and narrow.

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