In this second part of Europe Rendezvous, Armen Georgian is in Hungary and Austria on his whistle-stop journey across the EU, exploring mobility and transport projects funded by the EU's cohesion policy. 

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Our journey continues in Hungary, where the ouster of longtime prime minister and strongman Viktor Orban spells the likely unfreezing of EU funds that had been blocked because of the rule-of-law abuses while Orban was in power. We look at how transport projects were hit by corruption and the freezing of EU money with Gabor Eross, a former deputy mayor of Budapest's 8th district. Meanwhile, FRANCE 24's Charlotte Prudhomme dives into the corruption issue with Jozsef Peter Martin, the executive director of the Hungarian chapter of Transparency International.

Armen Georgian also meets Hungarian MEP Andras Laszlo, a member of Orban's Fidesz party. Laszlo argues that the EU money freeze was itself a violation of EU norms and a clear double standard when compared with the way the EU Commission treated a more Brussels-friendly government in Poland.

The trip ends in Austria, where Armen meets the general secretary of Pro Danube International, Robert Rafael, to explore the bureaucratic hurdles still hampering connectivity and transport flows across this great river.

Editor-in-Chief: Caroline de Camaret

Presented by Armen Georgian

Visual direction and Camera: Stéphane Bodenne, Charlotte Prudhomme and Luke Brown

"Europe Rendezvous" is a magazine programme broadcast on FRANCE 24 in French and English, on YouTube and on france24.com.