Gulyas: Talks with EU on budget, recovery fund ongoing

Talks between Hungary and the European Union are "going well" on the EU's budget for the 2021-2027 financial cycle but hit the buffers regarding the pandemic recovery fund, the prime minister's chief of staff told parliament's EU affairs committee on Tuesday. In his annual report to parliament's European affairs committee, Gergely Gulyas said the EC had "blown up an informal agreement" after Hungary's parliament passed amendments to its child protection law earlier this year and it restarted the procedure on the country's access to the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility, he said.