The Vatican News reported that “Pope Francis met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán this morning, Dec. 4, in the Apostolic Palace. The Catholic News Agency featured their coverage as “Pope Francis, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Talk Ukraine and Family Policies.”
On July 1, Hungary took over six months of the presidency of the Council of the European Union, and Orbán used that post to launch a peace mission. After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Orbán travelled on July 8 to Beijing to meet with President Xi Jinping, where he emphasized China’s role as a “key power in creating the conditions for peace.” He later flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet with candidate Donald Trump, on what Orbán called his “peace mission.”
