Posted on 08/19/2025 1:52:04 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
US President Donald Trump called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to address his obstruction of Ukraine's EU membership, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
The conversation emerged from Monday's White House discussions between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders.
European officials requested that Trump leverage his relationship with Orban to convince him to abandon his opposition to Ukraine's EU bid, the news outlet reported, citing those familiar with the matter.
Orban maintains opposition
During the call, Hungary expressed a willingness to host future negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy.
Trump said there would be a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, but the location has not yet been finalized.
Orban responded publicly Tuesday on the US social media company Facebook, indicating he received the membership request but remained unmoved. "Ukraine's membership in the European Union does not provide any security guarantees," he wrote. "Therefore linking membership with security guarantees is unnecessary and dangerous."
Neither Washington nor Budapest confirmed the call.
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“EVERYONE always expects US to pay for EVERY DAMNED THING!”
Including the Zeepers here, but WE ARE BROKE!
I agree with you...WW II has been over for almost 80 years, the destruction from that war has been cleaned up and fix, the European economies should have been on their own, sans any help ( no tariffs from us on importing their products ) for decades, and ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
You are correct. Trump needs some better information.
Lighten up, Frances. I was just having a little fun.
Thanks, much appreciated.
Yet now you claim it was that YOU were:"just having a little fun" as some kind of an authentic excuse? There's NO excuse for your uncivil, guttersnipe behavior; NONE! And it actually is against FR's TOS, which you should know, since you aren't a n00b.
Don't bother to reply to this comment, in any way, nor to any future comment of I might make on any other future thread.I have less than no interest in whatever you might ever have to say.
OK. So no hard feelings?
since the word “report” was in the headline, i didn’t even need to bother to read any part of the lies in the article ...
I’ve seen how you react when you *think* someone else is wrong. Don’t dish out what you’re unwilling to take.
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