Overview
- EU officials plan a first meeting in Budapest with Péter Magyar’s team to discuss unfreezing about €18 billion and Hungary’s veto of a €90 billion Ukraine package.
- Viktor Orbán will skip an EU leaders’ gathering in Cyprus to prepare the handover, after conceding defeat and confirming he leaves office in May.
- Magyar says he will suspend public broadcasters’ news programs after his government is formed to restore impartial and factual coverage.
- The presenter on state TV said such a suspension would break the law, while Magyar accused the channels of years of pro‑government propaganda.
- Magyar’s party, Tisza, won a supermajority and has pledged to replace Fidesz appointees, curb executive power, and rebuild ties with the EU before funds are released.