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Alberes clarified that Orban met Putin bilaterally and warned: “He did not go to Moscow on behalf of the EU”.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albarez, has rejected the suggestion that the meeting that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week was on behalf of the EU. He has also called on Budapest to be careful and not fall into “ambiguities” and to separate bilateral meetings from those held in the name of the Twenty-Seven. “Of course he is flying freely and making trips that have no keys other than the bilateral ones, he certainly does not represent Europe,” the minister replied when asked in an interview on RNE, reported by Europa Press. Whether Orbán’s meetings were with Putin or with Chinese President Xi Jinping, his meetings in his capacity as President of the Council of the European Union are not infringing.

According to the head of diplomacy, Spain “does not support the visits that Orbán has made as European visits,” nor do the European institutions. Undoubtedly, the Hungarian prime minister “has every right” to make bilateral visits “as he considers,” but certainly not “to speak on behalf of Europe.” “He did not go to Moscow in the name of Europe, this must be very clear, the president of the Commission (Ursula von der Leyen), the high representative (Josep Borrell) and of course European governments made it very clear,” Alberes added, calling for reflection and clarification “on what a president of the Council of the European Union can and cannot do.”