EU hails ‘new chapter’ as Magyar sworn in as Hungary’s prime minister – POLITICO

Hungary’s new Prime Minister Péter Magyar was sworn in on Saturday, ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year hold on power and raising hopes for a rapprochement with the EU.

Magyar, whose Tisza party won last month’s parliamentary elections in a landslide, was voted in during a ceremony in the parliament building in Budapest, where the EU flag was flying for the first time in a decade. The blue and gold banner was reinstated by the incoming speaker, reversing an Orbán-era decision to remove it.

“I wish all the best to Péter Magyar and Hungary,” European Council President António Costa told reporters at simultaneous celebrations marking Europe Day in Brussels. “It is a new chapter in Hungarian history and we are ready to work with the new Hungarian government.”