{"id":507011,"date":"2025-10-17T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/507011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:35:11","slug":"putin-trump-summit-in-hungary-forces-eu-leaders-to-mull-airspace-exemptions-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/507011\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin-Trump summit in Hungary forces EU leaders to mull airspace exemptions \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

But due to a ban on Russian aircraft flying through EU airspace linked to a wider sanctions regime, the Russian president would not be able to reach Budapest without defying the EU measures, taking a huge risk by flying over Ukraine, or going via a circuitous Balkan route.<\/p>\n

Under the EU’s sanctions regime<\/a>, national authorities may consider exceptions to the ban for Russian travel “if the competent authorities have determined that such landing, take-off or overflight is required for humanitarian purposes or for any other purpose consistent with the objectives of this regulation,” according to the EU legal text on the sanctions.<\/p>\n

European Commission spokesperson Anitta Hipper confirmed during a briefing with journalists that individual EU countries could make exceptions to the travel ban. <\/p>\n

Neither Putin nor his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, are currently subject to individual bans on travel within the EU, she added.<\/p>\n

“Such derogations must be given by member states individually,” Hipper said.<\/p>\n

No date has yet been set for the meeting between Putin and Trump. Moscow has not given any indications about the Kremlin chief’s travel plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But due to a ban on Russian aircraft flying through EU airspace linked to a wider sanctions regime,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1306,5293,32,2000,299,5187,1699,2190,2003,332,657,1781,333,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-507011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-aviation","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-hungary","16":"tag-law-enforcement","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-viktor-orban","20":"tag-vladimir-putin","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115390010127969254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507011","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=507011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}