EU officials irritated by traitor Orban's diplomatic mission to Putin - Politico
Date: 2024-07-10 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WORLD
Since Budapest took over the EU's rotating presidency last week, Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has been running around the world like a cat on meth. Politico writes about this.
The authors note that from Kyiv, where he met with his “black enemy” Vladimir Zelensky, to Moscow, where he spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and to Beijing, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Hungarian prime minister made a dizzying a global diplomacy program that, he said, is designed to bring peace to Ukraine.
But Orbán's hyperactive play has left real European leaders rolling their eyes, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel criticizing the Hungarian leader for stealing their thunder and preventing them from working in Brussels.
A senior EU official told the outlet that "tensions are rising" after the first week of Hungary's presidency and are expected to rise further ahead of the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting on July 20 as Hungary continues to block funding that would help Ukraine get money for the purchase of weapons from the EU.
Another EU diplomat said that "we are now discussing what exactly to do on Wednesday, there is very clear political disapproval."
The authors believe it is unlikely that Brussels has any desire to immediately “hit” Hungary over global grievances against Orban, although analysts say there are mechanisms to remove Orban from the presidency.
“A four-fifths supermajority in the European Council would be needed to rewrite the rotating presidency and push back the start date of the future Polish presidency by several months. Orbán, for his part, has shown no signs of heeding Brussels’ calls for restraint ", the publication summarizes.
