Putin, Trump and peace summit
Digest more
Hungary's strongman leader Viktor Orbán calls Trump's announcement of a meeting with Putin in his country great news for "peace-loving people."
6don MSN
Orbán celebrates Hungary as ‘the only place in Europe’ where a Trump-Putin meeting can be held
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has celebrated his country's role as the host for upcoming talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called his country an "island of peace" as he teased an upcoming summit there between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
With the ballot approaching in April, long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — trailing in most polls to his main political rival, Péter Magyar — hopes to use Thursday's show of force to reinvigorate his base that has had its confidence shaken by a series of political scandals and years of high prices and economic stagnation.
Viktor Orbán is widely considered to be Putin’s closest partner in the European Union, and has maintained his far-right populist rule for 15 years.