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Late invitations and spats leave Hungary’s 1956 commemoration with ‘modest’ guest list

EuroNews23 October 2026, 13:38 UTCHungary

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar had hoped to host top leaders in Budapest for the 70th anniversary of the 1956 revolution. But last-minute invitations and spats with Paris and Kyiv kept Macron, Tusk and Zelenskyy away, leaving only EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa attending.

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