Hungary's incoming prime minister, Peter Magyar, whose TiSA party won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections on April 12, said he was heading to Brussels for informal talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over frozen Hungarian EU funds, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
Magyar, who ended Viktor Orban's 16-year rule, stressed that "there is no time to waste."
The European Commission has blocked tens of billions of euros for Budapest over concerns about the rule of law and the previous government's governance. According to Reuters, the withholding of funds is among the main reasons why the Hungarian economy has remained practically stagnant for the past three years.
Magyar's visit to Brussels is expected to be the first serious test of the new course of relations between Hungary and the European Union since Orban's resignation.