Meloni 'lead player' in mediation with Orban on Ukraine - Politics. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was a "lead player" in the mediation with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Budapest dropped its veto against an EU package of 50 billion euros in aid to Ukraine, making an agreement among the 27 member States possible. The sources expressed "great satisfaction" at the agreement reached at the extraordinary EU summit with a unanimous vote that not been expected beforehand. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA 2013.