Petr Fiala says Hungarian PM’s trip to Moscow recalls appeasement of Hitler and is not in Europe’s interests
Viktor Orbán’s efforts to style himself as a high-level peacemaker by meeting with world leaders including Vladimir Putin are “wrong” and “not in the interest of Europe”, the Czech prime minister has said, recalling lessons from attempts to appease Adolf Hitler before the second world war.
The Hungarian prime minister has stoked controversy in recent weeks for embarking on what he has termed a “peace mission” while his country holds the Council of the EU’s rotating presidency, a spate of international trips that have involved meetings with the Russian president, China’s Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.