posted on social media<\/a>, alluding to Orb\u00e1n\u2019s closeness to President Vladimir Putin. \u201cHuge relief.\u201d<\/p>\nMichal, the Estonian prime minister, told POLITICO that without Orb\u00e1n in the room, leaders were going through a honeymoon period.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can feel the positive energy,\u201d he said. \u201cViktor Orb\u00e1n was a symbol somewhat \u2014 nothing personal \u2014 but the symbol was that he was inside the European Union, enjoying everything that is inside the EU \u2026 but at the same time, fighting against the European Union.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now that legacy is outside the room, I would say yes, you can feel it. Everybody\u2019s talking about what will happen in Europe next.\u201d<\/p>\n
What happens next depends on whether leaders can get over their differences on everything from Ukraine\u2019s membership to the bloc\u2019s finances. As an \u201cinformal\u201d gathering of leaders, EU jargon for a meeting without a collective statement at the end, the two-day talks in Cyprus were never going to be a summit where big decisions got made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honeymoon\u2019s over That\u2019s not to say they didn\u2019t find some common ground. A few voiced optimism about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[132],"tags":[23467,1062,11620,2698,399,279,467,4569,995,233,469,249,273,26284,303,1432,248,6298,2062,932,2445,330,403,350,325,185],"class_list":["post-41867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-viktor-orban","tag-apostolos-tzitzikostas","tag-budget","tag-croatia","tag-cyprus","tag-defense","tag-donald-tusk","tag-energy","tag-enlargement","tag-finance","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-fuels","tag-germany","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-kristen-michal","tag-middle-east","tag-negotiations","tag-poland","tag-resilience","tag-roads","tag-security","tag-transport","tag-ukraine","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-viktor-orban","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116461142487330213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}