Hungary is working to reach an agreement with the European Union by the end of the year on gaining access to billions of euros worth of pandemic recovery funding, state news agency MTI cited the country's new European affairs minister as saying.
The EU's executive Commission froze access to the funds for Hungary and Poland over their nationalist governments' track record of undercutting liberal democratic rules by restricting the rights of migrants, gays and women, as well as increasing state control over media and the courts.
