Some EU leaders want to attend planned Putin-Trump meeting in Budapest – media
Several European leaders intend to secure the presence of US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the upcoming meeting in Budapest, Politico reported on Tuesday.
“Some EU leaders will be lobbying to attend the Trump-Putin meeting as well as to ensure Zelenskyy has a seat at any negotiations,” the publication reports, citing an unnamed diplomat.
“For Europeans, the big fear is that Trump will again side with Putin in determining what peace will look like and will pressure Zelenskyy to accept Russian terms — potentially ceding swaths of territory in the east of the country,” Politico states.
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on October 16. Trump subsequently announced that the two countries would organize high-level talks, followed by a meeting between the two presidents in Budapest.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, for his part, announced that he had already ordered the formation of a committee to organize the summit.