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EU formally approves €90bn Ukraine loan and 20th sanctions package against Russia

EU signed off on the loan on Thursday, in time for summit talks in Cyprus that are scheduled to begin in the evening and will include talks over a dinner with the Ukrainian leader, [Volodymyr

Magyar to meet Hungarian president as Trump says next PM 'a good man'

news coverage and form a new broadcast authority to ensure press freedom. "Every Hungary deserves a public service media that broadcasts the truth," he told Kossuth radio, explaining he was not after personal revenge, even

Orbán's era was over in a flash and Hungary's next PM is a man in a hurry

Hungary's beaten leader. "We must bear this defeat with dignity." He spoke of feeling "pain and emptiness" about the defeat, taking full personal responsibility for what happened. But he offered no analysis

Hungary’s new PM apologises to those wronged under Orbán in first speech

EU. One of the country’s most prominent investigative journalists [was charged](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/26/hungary-charges-journalist-szabolcs-panyi-following-claims-minister-was-in-touch-with-moscow) with espionage. In the wake of Magyar and his Tisza party’s landslide victory [last month,](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/13/now-im-hopeful-hungarians-welcome-the-morning-after-16-years-of-orban-rule)

EU defence ministers meet for talks on Ukraine – Europe live

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks in Brussels, Belgium. Photograph: Daniel Gnap/NurPhoto/Shutterstock They will also **talk about how to ramp up domestic defence manufacturing in Europe** to answer to the growing needs amid warnings

EU officials arrive in Hungary for high-stakes talks with Magyar’s government

talks on Friday, Magyar and Tisza will probably be pulled between campaign promises, the demands of the EU and the institutional constraints created by Fidesz’s 16 years in power, said Péter Krekó, the director

Ukraine may have turned tide of Russian territorial gains, says think tank

news agency reported that the refinery stopped operations after three of its four distillation towers were damaged.  (Al Jazeera) Ukraine has also targeted military

Brexit may be back, but Britain needs to know what it wants

news in [Europe](https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news). But if this latest bout has attracted a fraction more attention than usual, it’s because there’s interest in closer UK-EU ties here, too. Since his election

Russian oil exports slump as Ukraine hammers ports and refineries

news agency has calculated, adding that five sources backed that assessment. Sweden’s military intelligence chief Thomas Nilsson told the Financial Times that Russia would need oil to remain above $100 a barrel

Why Europe’s car industry is at the centre of a new US trade war

news agency. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose country is likely to be hit hardest by a car tariff increase, told broadcaster ARD: “The Americans have it finalised, and ‌the ⁠Europeans haven’t – and that