The Tisza Party wants to submit a new recovery plan to the European Commission by the end of May. This would replace the Orbán government’s previous plan submitted in 2021, which previously failed to obtain EU funds – writes citing a source in Politico. According to the newspaper, the Tisza Party is also cooperating with some ministers and other officials of the Orbán government in order to promote the fulfillment of the conditions necessary to bring EU funds home as soon as possible.
Peter Magyar traveled to Brussels on Wednesday for informal talks with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, António Costa, on bringing EU funds home. “We have no time to waste” – written by Sunday Magyar. After Tisza’s two-thirds election victory, Péter Magyar promised that one of his first trips would lead to Brussels, and as we have written about it countless times, the new government has good reason to be in a hurry.
According to one of Politico’s sources, the purpose of the meeting with von der Leyen is to inform the European Commission about the work that is already underway, to determine the most pressing tasks after the Hungarian government takes office, and to figure out how to get the funds as quickly as possible. An EU official, who requested anonymity, told the newspaper that Wednesday’s meeting “signals good intentions” towards Hungary. The Commission’s decision to grant Péter Magyar a hearing even before his swearing-in is unusual, but not unprecedented: in October 2023, von der Leyen also received the later Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Brussels before his inauguration.
Although Viktor Orbán previously tried to reassure everyone that Until 2027, there are no problems with “the” EU moneythis is only true for some of the funds frozen due to rule of law problems. The model change at universities already in the summer of 2023 they complained about damages in the millions of eurosmore than and two billion euros have already floated away due to the delay of the Orbán government.
The most urgent problem is the resources of the recovery fund, which were created in addition to the regular EU budget in 2021 to mitigate the effects of the Covid epidemic.
In order to have access to the more than 10 billion euros (approx. HUF 3,700 billion) due to Hungary, the government this year should be completed by the end of August EU conditions.
That’s why he could urge Hungarian President Péter Sulyok Tamás to invite him to form a government as soon as possible. A huge rush is needed from the new government for EU funds, we wrote about why here in detail.
Ursula von der Leyen and Péter Magyar have spoken to each other on the phone several times since the election on April 12. The president of the European Commission first congratulated the future prime minister on the eve of the election, and then two days later they discussed the urgent priorities again. Future Foreign Minister Anita Orbán said about it this weekend postedthat in the company of András Kármán, István Kapitány and Márton Melléthei-Barna, they are negotiating with the leaders of the European Commission in Brussels about bringing EU funds home, and the future foreign minister’s recent post revealed that he was also on his way to Brussels for Wednesday’s negotiations with a Hungarian.
