Hungary's Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar has met EU leaders in Brussels, for the first time since his Tisza party won a landslide election on 12 April, sweeping away 16 years of rule by Viktor Orbán. After talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which he called "extremely constructive and successful", Magyar said that "in one sentence, EU resources will soon arrive in Hungary". Magyar has vowed to unlock billions of euros of EU funds for Hungary that have been frozen because of democratic backsliding and corruption allegations under Orbán's Fidesz-led government.
However, Magyar is in a hurry and his new government will have its work cut out to meet those conditions in a short space of time. Von der Leyen said she had had a "very good exchange" with Hungary's next prime minister, adding that the EU's executive Commission would "support your work to address these issues and realign with shared European values". Magyar also has an eye on a further €6.3bn in cohesion funds that were blocked over Orbán-era rule-of-law issues that the incoming government has promised to reverse.
Source: BBC World
