Zelenskyy in Brussels as Kyiv Looks to Europe Amid Tension with US
The talks follow Ukraine’s new minority-language education law, which Hungary said cleared the way for closer cooperation and EU accession progress.
- Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced on Oct 14 that he would hold his first official meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Oct 16 in Brussels during an EU summit.
- Two days prior, Zelensky signed a law on Oct 12 strengthening educational rights for national minorities, fulfilling a condition Hungary demanded before allowing Kyiv's accession talks to advance.
- Roughly 80,000 ethnic Hungarians in Zakarpattia Oblast benefit from the legislation, which grants Ukraine's Hungarian-speaking and EU-language minorities increased room to use their native language in education.
- Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated, "Our peoples deserve good neighborly relations," yet Kyiv has not formally confirmed the specific time or place for the Magyar-Zelensky meeting.
- International partners shared two additional reform clusters with Ukraine on Oct 13, advancing the accession process as Magyar's European Tisza party fosters more constructive dialogue with Kyiv.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar welcomed the political agreement between Hungary and Ukraine to expand the rights of the Hungarian minority in the Transcarpathian region. This came after his one-on-one meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the European Union summit in Brussels. Magyar described the adoption of the law on minority education by the Ukrainian parliament and the start of its implementation as …
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski described Friday as “very good” his first meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar, at a time when Kiev and Budapest are looking for a meltdown in their relations after years of tensions. Since the pro-European conservative leader of Hungary took office in May, both countries have tried to re-establish relations that had become tense under the mandate of Magyar’s predecessor Viktor Orbán, close to…
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The Frontier PostZelensky hails ‘very good’ first meeting with Hungary PM Magyar
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar for the first time, describing the meeting as ‘very good.’ The two countries are working to improve relations after previous tensions.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski and Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar had the first bilateral talks in Brussels, in the context of the two countries trying to open a "new chapter" in their relations, Kyiv Independent reports.
Zelensky held talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Magyar for the first time
Zelensky held talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Magyar for the first time. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels, it was held in a closed format without delegations, Ukrainian media reported.According to one of the...
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