Ursula von der Leyen gives a special greeting to the Hungarian people at a press conference in Brussels.
"You have done it again, against all odds. Just like in 1956 when you bravely stood up against the Soviet invasion, and like you did in 1989 when you were the first to cut the barbed wire before the fall of the Berlin Wall," she said after the election loss for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his party.
The EU leader promises to cooperate with Hungary's new Prime Minister Peter Magyar "as soon as possible," but it is unclear what this means for disbursements of the EU's 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine - which Orbán's government has stopped.
Let him take office first, von der Leyen says.
