Hungary's Magyar holds first bilateral meeting with Zelenskyy, seeking to reset ties

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held their first bilateral meeting on Friday at the EU summit in Brussels, after Kyiv's parliament passed a minority-education law that let Hungary drop its objections to two more EU accession chapters. Magyar called it a first step toward rebuilding trust and said he backs Ukraine against Russia's invasion; Zelenskyy said he wants the remaining two chapters opened by year's end.

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