Magyar starts his Brussels honeymoon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : It's a classic EU battle royale, with the "ambitious" camp on one side and the German-led frugals on the other, as POLITICO's Gregorio Sorgi and Max Griera report.
58% : Luís Montenegro backing Donald Trump's invitation to Vladimir Putin to the G20 in Miami is rippling through EU diplomatic circles.
58% : High 20C. CHANGES AT SLOVENIAN PERM REP: Goranka Krošelj is the new Coreper I and deputy EU ambassador at the Slovenian permanent representation.
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57% : VIP in the house: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will receive Magyar this afternoon, in what one EU official described as a show of goodwill as the new Hungarian leader signals a break from Orbán's disruptive policies.
56% : Coreper II meets at 2:30 p.m. -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen participates in the European Parliament plenary debate in Strasbourg on the EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, including its implications for energy prices and fertilizer availability. -- European Council President António Costa takes part in the EESC plenary debate on competitiveness at the Charlemagne building at 2 p.m. -- Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen holds a European Commission press conference on the EU age-verification app at 9:30 a.m. Watch live.
53% : That would revive ideas long pushed by the Parliament, which bristles at having to rely on EU member countries.
52% : Magyar is pushing for a broader reset ... including relief from daily fines imposed over Hungary's failure to follow asylum rules ... securing loans under the EU's SAFE program ... and finding a pathway for Hungarian universities to rejoin Erasmus after being sidelined due to concerns about academic freedom.
52% : Behind the scenes: EU ambassadors were briefed Monday that Costa personally asked von der Leyen to move forward with work on own resources.
52% : Representatives of the Parliament, the Cypriot presidency and the European Commission agreed to postpone the talks just before 2 p.m., according to three Parliament officials and two EU diplomats, with the main sticking point whether to give industrial AI lighter treatment -- a demand from the European Parliament, backed by Germany.
51% : Weyand had taken a more cautious line on parts of the EU-U.S. trade agenda than the Commission's political leadership wanted -- so, moving her sidelines a potential internal brake.
50% : Von der Leyen heads into the Magyar meeting straight from the European Parliament, where she is laying out the EU line on the Middle East war and its spillover into energy and fertilizer markets.
49% : Unlocking roughly €10 billion in frozen EU funds -- part of Hungary's Covid recovery allocation.
49% : The clash over the EU's next long-term budget is just getting started -- and, with more than €2 trillion at stake, it won't be pretty.
49% : MEPs voted Tuesday for an ambitious negotiating position as EU leaders prepare to decide how much money to put on the table.
47% : There's one major flashpoint: new EU-level taxes -- the so-called own resources.
45% : MEPs are set to endorse a report accusing the health commissioner of "serious and prolonged management failures" during his time running the EU executive's enlargement agenda from 2019 and 2024.
44% : On today's Brussels Playbook Podcast: Zoya and Sarah break down Hungary's dash for EU cash -- and look at the awkward question of Russia's sporting return.
43% : Negotiations on a deal to delay the EU's artificial intelligence rules collapsed overnight, my colleague Pieter Haeck reports -- followed by a lot of finger-pointing.
42% : Magyar will have a sit-down with European Council President António Costa at 6 p.m. **A message from Altana: The free trade era is over.
36% : The EU may be more cautious this time.

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