{"id":117844,"date":"2023-10-20T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T06:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/european-leaders-seethe-over-putin-orban-meeting\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T06:10:33","slug":"european-leaders-seethe-over-putin-orban-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/european-leaders-seethe-over-putin-orban-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"European leaders seethe over Putin-Orb\u00e1n meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117844\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nEuropean leaders must not \u201cfall\u201d for the tactics of Vladimir Putin, the Czech president, Petr Pavel, has said, two days after Hungary\u2019s prime minister shook hands with Russia\u2019s leader. Viktor Orb\u00e1n, in a rare move for the leader of a country that belongs to the EU and Nato, met Putin in Beijing on Tuesday for what the Hungarian leader\u2019s office described as a discussion on energy cooperation and peace. Hungary has long been criticised for democratic backsliding at home and its Russia- and China-friendly policies abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Its foreign minister, P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, routinely visits Moscow. And in a move that has frustrated its allies, Hungary \u2013 along with Turkey \u2013 has yet to ratify Sweden\u2019s application for Nato membership. Orb\u00e1n and Putin\u2019s meeting this week left officials in western capitals seething. In a statement on Thursday, Pavel, a former Nato general, said: \u201cAs it has been repeatedly shown, Putin does not meet European leaders with the aim of achieving peace in Ukraine. Peace can be achieved without any negotiations on his part simply by ceasing attacks and withdrawing his troops from Ukrainian territory. \u201cHe is only holding these meetings with the aim of breaking the unity of European countries and the entire democratic world. We should not fall for his tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, told Reuters that images of the Hungarian prime minister shaking hands with Putin were \u201cvery, very unpleasant\u201d and defied logic. The US ambassador in Budapest, David Pressman, also sharply criticised the meeting. \u201cHungary\u2019s leader chooses to stand with a man whose forces are responsible for crimes against humanity in Ukraine, and alone among our allies,\u201d he wrote on social media. \u201cWhile Russia strikes Ukrainian civilians, Hungary pleads for business deals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s ambassador to Hungary, Julia Gross, echoed this. \u201cSo \u2013 Putin must end his war of aggression against Ukraine, end the bombardment of civilians, the shelling of schools and hospitals, the kidnapping of children?\u201d she wrote on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cThat was meant and discussed, surely?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n was in Beijing for an international forum on the Chinese president, Xi Jinping\u2019s, belt and road infrastructure initiative. A spokesperson for the Hungarian government, Zolt\u00e1n Kov\u00e1cs, hit back at critics: \u201cThe stance of Hungary regarding Russia and the war in Ukraine has been clear from the get-go. We always advocated for open and transparent dialogue with the parties involved to assist in finding a peaceful solution to this bloody conflict. \u201cI find a certain amusement in how these politicians flock to criticise the Hungarian government and our openly declared interest in maintaining a diplomatic relationship with Russia, while their moral superiority is a facade at best,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/20\/european-leaders-seethe-over-putin-orban--meeting\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/118630\/\">European leaders seethe over Putin-Orb\u00e1n meeting<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1347,11923,1706,1541,11924,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-117844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-european","tag-leaderrs","tag-meeting","tag-putin","tag-seethe","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}