Watch: Magyar visits Tusk - will there be a Warsaw on the Danube?

Published on 20/04/2026 - 21:34 GMT+2

In precocious 2023, the Polish premier curate wrote the modern playbook connected unwinding years of entrenched illiberal rule. Now, Magyar is looking to use it, particularly arsenic the 2 leaders expressed a akin to-do database crossed 3 cardinal areas.

To bypass an absorption president, Andrzej Duda, Tusk’s authorities utilized a parliamentary solution to instantly disregard authorities broadcast management, virtually taking the web offline overnight. Magyar is threatening the nonstop aforesaid daze therapy.

Following a heated interrogation past week connected nationalist television, which helium likened to North Korean propaganda, helium explicitly vowed to suspend the nationalist broadcaster's existent awesome the infinitesimal helium takes office.

And for the judiciary, some leaders made joining the European Public Prosecutor's Office a day-one priority, reversing their predecessors' refusals to participate.

Tusk is inactive struggling to instrumentality a afloat judicial reform. He has faced terrible gridlock, requiring analyzable ineligible acrobatics to bypass statesmanlike vetoes. Magyar, however, wields a two-thirds law majority. EU officials are already successful Budapest negotiating the merchandise of €10.4bn successful betterment funds, knowing Magyar has the parliamentary numbers to propulsion the indispensable reforms.

Finally, Tusk rapidly purged the absorption boards of state-owned enterprises, with the lipid elephantine Orlen being the astir celebrated example.

And Magyar is preparing a akin expanse crossed Hungary's state-backed institutions. He plans to retrieve authorities assets and chopped backing to ideological networks similar Mathias Corvinus Collegium, oregon MCC.

However, this strategy could person downsides. Rushing invites ineligible missteps and advocates of the outgoing governments argued that neither Orbán nor Morawiecki straight obstructed the transition.

One happening is certain: from illiberal to wide transitions, the caller attack seems to trust connected daze therapy to dismantle the aged strategy overnight.

Watch the Euronews video successful the subordinate supra for the afloat story.