Hungary did not support the joint statement on behalf of the European Union (EU) heads of state and government on the upcoming Trump-Putin meeting. The country's prime minister, Viktor Orban, wrote on X that he considers such a participation format meaningless.

“Just four days ahead of the historic summit between President Trump and President Putin, the European Council sought to issue a statement in the name of all EU heads of state and government.

Before the liberal-mainstream chorus begins its newest rendition of their favourite ‘Putin’s puppet’ tune, I decided to share why I could NOT support the statement on behalf of Hungary.

  1. The statement attempts to set conditions for a meeting to which leaders of the EU were not invited.
  2. The fact that the EU was left on the sidelines is sad enough as it is. The only thing that could make things worse is if we started providing instructions from the bench.
  3. The only sensible action for EU leaders is to initiate an EU-Russia summit, based on the example of the US-Russia meeting.

Let’s give peace a chance!” wrote the Hungarian PM.