The president of the Ursula von der Leyen commission announced a plan to send loans up to up to 150 billion euros to the EU governments to help them increase military spending while they are confused with the need to rethink their defense infrastructures without American support.
Macron sought to lead European efforts to an increased unit in response to Trump movements, organizing two consecutive meetings in Paris with the Allied nations.
For its part, Hungary has tried several times to derail joint European efforts to strengthen Ukraine – and Budapest was not included in any of the Paris meetings.
Unlike most European leaders, Orbán fell on Trump’s side after the American president submitted his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a public reprimand at the Oval Office. “Strong men make peace, weak men wage war,” posted Orbán on X.
Orbán, with his Slovak ally Robert Fico, called for direct interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin and opposed security guarantees and new aid to Ukraine.
In a letter sent on March 3 to Orbán and seen by Politico, the president of the European Council António Costa noted “there is a divergence on the path of peace and, in particular, of the approach of” peace by force “.
Nicholas Vinocur contributed to this report.
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