EU leaders in bitter clash over Covid-19 recovery package
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels from on (#55WTG)
Orban accuses Netherlands' Rutte of communist' tactics on tense third day of talks
Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, accused his Dutch counterpart of using the same methods as his country's former communist leaders on Sunday, as EU leaders publicly clashed during tense and acrimonious negotiations over the terms of a proposed 1.8tn budget and recovery package for the bloc.
A third difficult day of a summit of the EU's 27 heads of state and government - the first in person for five months - saw movement towards agreement as talks stretched deep into the night, but laid bare the deep splits between north and south, and east and west.
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