{"id":24656,"date":"2026-04-28T04:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/24656\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:21:22","slug":"hungarys-magyar-heading-to-brussels-for-talks-on-unlocking-eu-funds-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/24656\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s Magyar heading to Brussels for talks on unlocking EU funds \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The accelerated pace of talks to unlock EU funding comes as Tisza’s defeat of long-time Hungarian leader Victor Orb\u00e1n has already led to a major breakthrough in EU-Hungary relations. Brussels on Thursday formally approved<\/a> a \u20ac90 billion loan for Ukraine after Budapest \u2014 long a holdout under Orb\u00e1n \u2014 dropped its objections, clearing a key political hurdle for Magyar<\/a> as he seeks to revamp ties with the bloc.<\/p>\n

In the earlier talks in Budapest April 18-19, Magyar and his incoming team<\/a> met with von der Leyen’s chief of staff Bj\u00f6rn Seibert and senior officials to map out a path<\/a> toward releasing funds frozen over rule-of-law and corruption concerns. \u201cThis necessary work<\/a> will continue,\u201d the Commission said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Time is tight for the incoming Tisza-led government<\/a>. Hungary risks losing around \u20ac10 billion<\/a> in post-pandemic recovery funds if it fails to meet an August deadline, while roughly \u20ac18 billion remains frozen over democratic backsliding under Orb\u00e1n. Magyar is also seeking access to additional EU defense financing and relief from daily fines imposed over migration disputes.<\/p>\n

Brussels is looking for more than a one-off reset. Officials want Hungary to stay aligned on Ukraine<\/a>, including backing future sanctions on Russia<\/a> and dropping its resistance to Kyiv\u2019s EU accession path<\/a>, while also showing progress on rule-of-law concerns<\/a> that froze the funds. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can say that it is extremely important to bring [the money] home, and as quickly as possible,\u201d Magyar stressed<\/a> on April 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The accelerated pace of talks to unlock EU funding comes as Tisza’s defeat of long-time Hungarian leader Victor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12845,345,367,54,39,2874,5091,40,9451,8038,2221,57,68,58,72,2877,107,16,511,28,63,64,1070],"class_list":{"0":"post-24656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-bjorn-seibert","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-funding","14":"tag-european-politics","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-extremism","17":"tag-far-right","18":"tag-finance","19":"tag-hungarian-elections-2026","20":"tag-hungarian-politics","21":"tag-hungary","22":"tag-migration","23":"tag-peter-magyar","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-sanctions","27":"tag-ukraine","28":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","29":"tag-viktor-orban","30":"tag-waste"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}