{"id":375828,"date":"2024-07-04T19:16:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/07\/04\/orban-putin-russia-michel-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:33:13","slug":"orbans-peace-after-visit-to-kyiv-planned-meeting-with-putin-but-brussels-makes-it-clear-no-mandate-from-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/04\/orbans-peace-after-visit-to-kyiv-planned-meeting-with-putin-but-brussels-makes-it-clear-no-mandate-from-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Orb\u00e1n’s “peace”. After visit to Kyiv, planned meeting with Putin. But Brussels makes it clear: “No mandate from the EU”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Viktor Orb\u00e1n will be in the Kremlin tomorrow to meet Vladimir Putin<\/strong>,\u00a0just two days after\u00a0the visit<\/a> to Kyiv in which Orb\u00e1n called the engagement for\u00a0Ukraine “the main issue of the next six months of the Hungarian EU presidency.” However, from Brussels, after the endorsement for\u00a0the auspicious meeting with Zelensky, comes the immediate correction: “The rotating presidency of the EU has no mandate to engage with Russia<\/strong> on behalf of the EU.”<\/p>\n

Making it clear that this initiative is solely the child of Budapest’s balancing act between the EU and its friendship with the Russian dictator is the president of the European Council, Charles Michel<\/strong>. For the EU, “no discussion on Ukraine can take place without Ukraine,” he said in a post on X minutes after news of the Magyar premier’s trip to Moscow, reported by Hungarian broadcaster Radio Liberty<\/em><\/a> citing a Budapest government source. According to Radio Liberty<\/em>, Orb\u00e1n will be accompanied by Foreign Minister\u00a0Peter Szijjarto<\/strong>, a regular on the Budapest-Moscow route: since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Szijjarto has been to the Russian capital at least five times.<\/p>\n

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Viktor Orban and\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky in\u00a0Kyiv, 02\/07\/24 (Photo by Genya SAVILOV \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just four days before the start of Hungary’s dreaded six-month presidency of the EU Council, Europe’s most pro-Russian leader is already in danger of embarrassing the Union and creating tension with fellow heads of state and government. On July 2, in his first trip to Ukraine since the conflict erupted, Orb\u00e1n had called on Zelensky to think about the possibility of “proclaiming a cease-fire<\/strong> and starting negotiations with Russia.” to which\u00a0the Ukrainian premier replied that “a just peace is needed.” A peace that starts from an assumption reiterated by Charles Michel: “Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is the victim.”<\/p>\n

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The EU rotating presidency has no mandate to engage with Russia on behalf of the EU.<\/p>\n

The European Council is clear: Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is the victim. No discussions about Ukraine can take place without Ukraine.<\/p>\n

– Charles Michel (@CharlesMichel) July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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According to Hungarian media, the premier, who has taken over the rotating presidency of the EU Council since July 1, will fly to Moscow tomorrow. Charles Michel immediately intervenes: “No discussion on Ukraine without Ukraine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":239886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[26458,25835,25837,25789],"class_list":["post-375828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-viktor-orban-en","tag-charles-michel-en","tag-ukrainian-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376989,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375828\/revisions\/376989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}