Mysterious: Orbán told NATO, EU he COULD NOT EVADE a meeting with Putin
PM Viktor Orbán met with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin last week in Beijing. A Hungarian news outlet said he informed the Western allies about the meeting with the Russian president. He added Putin initiated the talk, and he could not evade it.
According to hvg.hu, Orbán informed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, via phone about his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said it was not his idea to meet with Putin, but he could not evade it.
Bertalan Havasi, Orbán’s press chief, said such coordinations are routinely happening before international meetings since Hungary is a member of NATO and the EU.
According to telex.hu, “Europe’s last dictator”, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, invited Orbán to an official visit. Putin’s closest ally passed the invitation to Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó, who was in Minsk on a two-day international conference. Based on the information of the Hungarian news outlet, the Belarus president said the Hungarian-Belarusian trade relationship is in bad condition and provided the Hungarian government wanted to help Hungarians work and invest in the country, the Belarusian government is open for creating the best circumstances for that.
Read HERE and HERE what the wealthiest Hungarian said about a possible Huxit, while in THIS article, you may read about Orbán’s opinion about Ukraine’s chances against Russia.
Chinese ambassador: Orban’s visit to China success
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to China last week was successful and fruitful, reflecting increased mutual political trust between the sides, Chinese Ambassador to Hungary Gong Tao said on Friday. He told a press conference that thanks to the visit, bilateral cooperation strengthened under the arrangements of the Belt and Road Initiative and also Hungary’s eastern opening strategy. Cooperation between the sides is an example for a new type of international cooperation and a strategic partnership has developed between Hungary and China, he added.
He noted that the Hungarian delegation signed cooperation agreements with the Chinese government in ten areas. Events planned to mark the approaching 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Hungary will help further intensify cooperation, he added.
You mean our big tough manly “independent” thinker and actor could not say no? He says no to the EU on a daily basis, of course from the comfort of his home here in Hungary, the home that the EU made for him. Shocker.
I don’t think floating ‘Huxit’ idea will benefit the government in the short, medium or long term, they’d be asking for trouble as that’s what would get a broad mass movement happening, including protests on the streets (see Poland), which really puts the ‘frighteners’ on authoritarian regimes, as it also tests state institutions’ and personnels’ loyalty to the government.
“What Orbán has done with Putin is a middle finger to all soldiers, all Ukrainians that are dying every day and that have to suffer from Russian attacks.” Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettell
“It’s really more than strange to see that we start to flirt with the regime who is committing very cruel atrocities. It sends a very wrong message to anybody.” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda
Orban and Hungary are cautious participants in the global economy. I believe that Orban knows that Hungary needs to remain neutral in global politics in order to move forward in capital endeavors. It is a smart move at the moment.
Hungary has seen its share of the pendulum swing…communism to capitalism. It certainly doesnt want to swing back to where it was thirty years ago even.
Orban is good for Hungary.