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Hungary’s Magyar meets Zelenskyy in bid to reset strained ties

EuroNews16 October 2026, 11:07 UTCHungary

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar held talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the European Council, seeking to normalise ties after Kyiv passed a minority-rights law and Budapest dropped objections to EU accession clusters.

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