{"id":504795,"date":"2025-10-16T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/504795\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:27:11","slug":"orban-hails-planned-trump-putin-meeting-in-budapest-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/504795\/","title":{"rendered":"Orb\u00e1n hails planned Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n celebrated the announcement that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Budapest to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe planned meeting between the American and Russian presidents is great news for the peace-loving people of the world,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PM_ViktorOrban\/status\/1978877428681363690\" target=\"_blank\">post on X<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cWe are ready!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115384956858741387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he and Putin had held a lengthy phone call earlier in the day, in which \u201cgreat progress was made\u201d and the two leaders agreed to meet in the Hungarian capital.<\/p>\n<p>The Budapest summit would follow an initial round of meetings between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian counterparts next week at a location to be determined, the U.S. president said.<\/p>\n<p>The call with Putin came ahead of Trump\u2019s scheduled White House meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has said he hopes to convince Washington to provide Tomahawk missiles and other weapons systems that would enable Ukraine to attack deeper into Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n celebrated the announcement that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Budapest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,2820,2598,332,657,49,1781,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-504795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-marco-rubio","12":"tag-missiles","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-viktor-orban","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115385260049475140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}