Italian Prime Minister Meloni meets with Hungary’s Orbán to discuss Ukraine

During a recent meeting, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban discussed the situation in the Middle East, their support for just peace in Ukraine and Ukraine's postwar recovery. Source: AP, as reported by European Pravda Details: Meloni also congratulated Orban on his six-month rotating presidency of the European Union Council, the first phase of EU accession negotiations with Albania, and the progress made with Bulgaria and Romania in the enlargement of the Schengen area.

Meloni and Orban also underlined the importance of tackling the problem of illegal migration, calling for greater cooperation to address the root causes and combat trafficking and smuggling.

Background:

• On 4 December, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with the Pope; they discussed the situation in Ukraine, among other issues.
• Orban also made several trips to Russia and China during Hungary's EU presidency, where he spoke of peace in Ukraine.
• Despite the barrage of criticism and the lack of any real results of his "peace efforts", the Hungarian prime minister continued to talk about the need for a "ceasefire" without explaining how it could be achieved.
• Orban recently complained that the threat of war escalation "has never been greater".

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