EU Leaders Slam Orban After He Visits Trump In Florida

Bloomberg News reports:

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban traveled to Florida to meet Donald Trump in the latest stop on his self-styled “peace mission” to resolve the war in Ukraine, which has angered Western allies. Orban posted a photo with the Republican nominee and former US president at his Mar-a-Lago resort, showing the pair giving a thumbs up, in a post by the Hungarian leader on social media platform X.

Ministers from Sweden, Finland, Poland and three Baltic nations — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — will skip informal meetings in Hungary during the first phase of its six-month EU presidency this summer, to protest Orban’s freewheeling diplomacy, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told reporters on Thursday. Orban “is, in effect, abusing the presidency, kidnapping it for his own purposes,” Kristersson told reporters on Thursday at the NATO summit in Washington.

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Peace mission 5.0
It was an honour to visit President @realDonaldTrump at Mar-a-Lago today. We discussed ways to make #peace. The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it! pic.twitter.com/AiTRsdexM5

— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) July 12, 2024