Trump called Orbn to win his support for Ukraine joining EU (and ask election advice) [View all]
President Trump called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday to win his support for Ukraine to join the European Union (EU), a conversation that came after discussions with European leaders who were at the White House, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The talk with Orbán, one of Trump’s staunchest European allies, resulted from the president’s Monday deliberations with European leaders who were in Washington, along with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The top European officials asked if the president could utilize his sway over the Hungarian prime minister to force him to do away with his opposition to Ukraine’s joining the EU, a goal Kyiv has long sought, Bloomberg reported.
Hungary expressed willingness to host the next summit, to feature both Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump has backed the idea of a Putin-Zelensky meeting, after which a trilateral meeting would take place between the two leaders and the U.S. president.
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