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Now playing Next Hungary Hungary claims victory in EU recovery fund talks "The Eastern European countries have learned the EU negotiating game – and Orban has become quite good at this," one political analyst told Euronews. 22/07/2020
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Now playing Next world news 'Historic day': EU leaders react to COVID-19 recovery package deal Historic, groundbreaking and imperfect. They are just some of the words being used to describe the EU's newly agreed coronavirus recovery package. 21/07/2020
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