The future of the EU
Leader: Mark against Orbán – but have ice in your stomach
On two of Saturday's editorial pages, attention is drawn to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his criticized self-declared peace tour.
Orbán began the tour shortly after Hungary took over the rotating EU presidency. With its visits to Beijing and Moscow, it is playing into China and Russia's hands, says Expressen's leader. The EU should reflect on how the influence of the dictators can be reduced, it says.
"Removing the right of veto in foreign policy is something to think about."
Sydsvenskan's leader believes that Hungary's EU presidency, which lasts six months, risks damaging the union a great deal. But having too high a tone against Orbán is not the right way to go: "it gives him too much weight", writes the leader.
"Rather handle the remaining five months and two weeks of Hungary's presidency with grim patience, ice in the stomach - and strong marks when called for."
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French election The new election in France
Details of cracks in Macron's post-election movement
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has been elected leader of the center group Renaissance in the French parliament, reports AFP. The group retreated significantly but was still the second largest in the French election last week.
After the election, cracks between 35-year-old Attal and his mentor, President Emmanuel Macron, could be discerned, writes the news agency. Among other things, Attal did not mention Macron at all in his speech in connection with his election.
At the same time, Macron is said to have scolded Attal and several other party friends for how they acted in connection with the new election, during a closed meeting on Friday.
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Iran's president wants constructive dialogue with the EU
Iran's newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian says he is looking forward to improving relations with Europe, reports AFP. At the same time, he accuses the EU of breaking promises to ease the effects of US sanctions against the country.
"Despite these slippages, I look forward to a constructive dialogue with European countries to move our relations in the right direction," he writes in the English-language Tehran Times newspaper.
Pezeshkian has been described as more pro-Western and reformist than representative Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash earlier this year.
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