nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/da56a3449b491903 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240709s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/da56a3449b491903 doi eng 342 23 van Elsuwege, Peter Author aut How Viktor Orbán Challenges the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy van Elsuwege, Peter Verfassungsblog 2024-07-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Since the start of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán pursued an active foreign policy. He went to Kyiv for a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, made a surprise visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, attended an informal summit of the Organisation of Turkic States hosted by Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, and then flew to Beijing for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Orbán’s self-declared ‘peace diplomacy’ illustrates – once more – the challenges surrounding the EU’s external representation. His visits are nothing else than an expression of Hungarian national foreign policy. Also in that capacity, however, his actions are problematic in view of Hungary’s obligations under the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy. CC BY-SA 4.0 Council Presidency European Foreign Policy Foreign Policy Orban Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-viktor-orban-challenges-the-eus-common-foreign-and-security-policy/ raw object