How Viktor Orbán Challenges the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy van Elsuwege, Peter Author aut Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-07-09 eng
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 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 van Elsuwege, Peter Council Presidency European Foreign Policy Foreign Policy Orban 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-viktor-orban-challenges-the-eus-common-foreign-and-security-policy/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/da56a3449b491903 240709 10.59704/da56a3449b491903 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)