Ukraine, twenty EU countries against Orban: “No one asked him to mediate with Putin”
Some 20 EU member states plan to face Hungary at the Coreper summit after Viktor Orban’s solo peacekeeping missions. The accusation is of disloyalty. In fact, Orban, in some of his statements in Moscow “went directly against the conclusions of the European Council”. He reproaches the confusion generated by the Hungarian prime minister between acting as the leader of a single country and on behalf of the presidency. Tgcom 24 reports it. Some of his phrases in the crosshairs, in the recent meeting with Putin, on the war in Ukraine.
The EU was keen to stress that Orban, whose country holds the six-month presidency of the Union, had no mandate to talk to Putin. The Hungarian leader, in his surprise trip to Russia, was accused of “undermining European unity”. The EU also complained that it had been kept in the dark about the preparations, as had Ukraine.
“Nobody asked him to mediate” European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer, he then doubled down. “No contact before, no explanation after.” Responding to a Chinese journalist’s question about “skepticism” toward Hungarian PM Mamer’s mediation attempt, he said: “Mediation by definition requires two parties, and neither party, neither Ukraine nor Russia, asked him to mediate.”
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