Orban, who has grown increasingly isolated within the EU for his ties with Russia and opposition to military aid for Ukraine, has praised Trump as a "man of peace" who would quickly end the war. The two spoke by phone late on Wednesday, and Orban posted on social media: "We have big plans for the future".

That would align with Orban's self-styled "peace mission" that upset European Union leaders in July when he visited Moscow ... In a speech on Wednesday, the U.S. ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, said Orban had treated the US election "like a card ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will host dozens of European leaders in Budapest later this week boosted by his "dear friend" Donald Trump's US election victory, but with relations with