During its presidency of the Council of the European Union, Hungary will represent those wanting change and „will keep the hope for change alive in the next institutional cycle”, Hungary’s minister for EU affairs said in Brussels. Speaking at an event at the Brussels headquarters of the Foundation for a Civic Hungary, János Bóka said the EP elections „have clearly shown not only that change is necessary, but also that there is a yearning for change, as Europeans themselves have clearly expressed”. Political forces campaigning for change had strengthened and those standing for the status quo had suffered losses, Bóka said.