{"id":16944,"date":"2026-05-23T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/16944\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:36:08","slug":"magyar-to-visit-brussels-next-week-to-discuss-unfreezing-funds-for-hungary-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/16944\/","title":{"rendered":"Magyar to visit Brussels next week to discuss unfreezing funds for Hungary \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The money had been withheld over Budapest\u2019s breaches of EU law under Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who had governed the country for 16 consecutive years until losing last month\u2019s general election. The \u20ac10.4 billion is part of a post-pandemic recovery fund and only a fraction of the money Hungary is seeking to unfreeze. But with a looming deadline, securing full access to that tranche<\/a> has become the new government\u2019s top priority.<\/p>\n

Magyar\u2019s incoming administration has until Aug. 31 to formally request the money, while the Commission in Brussels has a deadline of Dec. 31 to make the payments.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s foreign minister stressed that Hungary was already working on a set of so-called \u201csuper milestones\u201d and reforms that were needed to get access to the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are reinstating rule of law criteria. And that\u2019s ensuring that the money is spent transparently, absolutely free of corruption,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s important to emphasize here that that was our electoral mandate. We were running on a platform. \u2026 So these super milestones are 100 percent coinciding with what this government will do, would do anyway, as well as what the electorate was asking us to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foreign minister also said her government would push for the release of access to \u20ac16 billion in European defense loans under the so-called SAFE program, albeit with less time pressure. To secure the money, Budapest would table a new proposal, she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur SAFE proposal wasn\u2019t accepted by the European Commission. So we inevitably have to table it again,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we will see what we can do, again within the framework of what are the real needs of the country, what are the NATO requirements, how fast and how we want to meet those and how we want to get there, as well as what is the Hungarian defense industrial needs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The money had been withheld over Budapest\u2019s breaches of EU law under Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who had governed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7786,18,1288,934,1597,496,249,424,326,491,3058,938,472,1598,946,390,6207,88,57],"class_list":["post-16944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-breaches","tag-brussels","tag-corruption","tag-cyprus","tag-defense","tag-elections","tag-energy","tag-european-defense","tag-hungary","tag-negotiations","tag-payments","tag-peter-magyar","tag-platforms","tag-resilience","tag-rule-of-law","tag-russia","tag-sustainability","tag-ukraine","tag-viktor-orban"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116623218181314569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}