The opposition victory sets Hungary on course to rebuild ties with the EU and restore democracy and rule of law.
'A new trend involves posting job advertisements [on LinkedIn] ... and then approaching selected candidates,' Estonia's intelligence agency said, in its annual report.
Foreign ministers are to discuss Israel trade sanctions in Luxembourg next week, as EU waits for details of Hungary's new approach.
When Europeans open a streaming app tonight, they do not simply choose entertainment. They enter an attention system that decides what is surfaced, what is sidelined, and what becomes 'normal' through rankings, recommendations, and autoplay. As the EU prepares for the 2026 review of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), this is no longer just a cultural debate. It is a question of market design, democratic resilience, and strategic capacity.
Hungary is waking up to a new leader this morning — one who is almost 20 years younger than Viktor Orbán, but not an outsider (nor someone entirely politically opposed to the previous leadership.)
The European Parliament has set out its mandate. We stand ready to negotiate constructively with the Council, with a clear goal: agreement by the end of 2026, so new programmes can be launched on schedule in January 2028.
Beyond the relief of seeing Viktor Orbán gone, the EU should resist premature normalisation and not give Péter Magyar a blank cheque. It should require clear commitments and wait for concrete progress before unblocking EU funds. That also means that the process should not be politicised. This will depend on the European Commission but also on the European People's Party — the party of Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Donald Tusk and now Magyar.
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For Brussels, the immediate temptation will be to read Peter Magyar’s victory as a strategic realignment: the return of Hungary to the European mainstream after years of institutional conflict. But Peter Magyar is not the political antithesis of Orbán. His emergence reflects, in part, a reconfiguration within Hungary’s conservative political space rather than its outright displacement.
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“Never interrupt your enemy whilst he is making a mistake,” Napoleon said. It is just one of the many historical lessons of warfare that US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have ignored over the past 40 days. The result is that they have lost the war against Iran and failed to achieve any of their objectives.
“He didn't fall into Viktor Orbán's culture war trap — like the opposition always did.” Hungarian political scientist Eszter Kováts explains the rise of Péter Magyar. The liberals and the mainstream rightwing European parties expect much more from him than he is ready to give, in her opinion. “But he will not be Orbán,” she says.
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A leading Palestinian human rights advocate has been refused a visa to address the European Parliament, despite both Belgium and the Netherlands being prepared to grant entry.
The political aftershocks from Sunday's election in Budapest comes at a volatile time amid a collapsing ceasefire between the United States and Iran as Tehran re-imposes a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, back in Brussels, the 2028-2034 budget is on the table.