Viktor Orbán
Orbán to meet Putin - anger in the EU
Emil Forsberg
Published 2024-07-04 21.20
Something that makes the EU leader Charles Michel roar.
- They have no mandate to cooperate with Russia on behalf of the EU, he says.
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On Friday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is expected to arrive in Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin, a Hungarian government source told Radio Free Europe.
The announcement comes just days after Hungary took over the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers. The last time he visited Moscow was in September 2022 when he attended the funeral of ex-president Mikhail Gorbachev.
The President of the European Council Charles Michel has been reached by the data and protests in a post on X:
"The EU's rotating presidency has no mandate to cooperate with Russia on behalf of the EU. The position of the European Council is clear: Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is the victim. No discussions about Ukraine can be held without Ukraine," he writes.
Earlier this week, Orbán visited Ukraine where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and asked him if it was possible to bring about a ceasefire.
- A truce can ensure that the pace of negotiations increases, Orbán said according to Radio Free Europe.
According to Zelensky's spokesperson Ihor Zhovka, the president should have listened, but responded by expressing Ukraine's "clear, understandable and well-known position", writes TT.
Ukraine has stated that it will only accept solutions based on the country's territorial integrity being preserved intact – that is, control over all the territory occupied by Russia.
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