Premier Giorgia Meloni and Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban met again early on Thursday before
this week's extraordinary European summit on the EU budget and
aid to Ukraine, sources said. The two leaders had already met
during the night, at the central Brussels hotel where Meloni is
staying.
After the first meeting, Orban said he would act to ensure
Ilaria Salis, a 39-year-old Italian elementary school teacher
and anti-Fascist activist on trial in Hungary for allegedly
attacking two Hungarian neo-Nazis almost a year ago, would get
"fair treatment". Footage of Salis with her hands and feet
chained during a court hearing in Budapest have caused a public
outcry in Italy. "The only thing I can legitimately to do in the
case of Ilaria Salis is to exert influence so that she gets fair
treatment," said Orban, adding that the Hungarian judiciary is
independent from the executive. The Hungarian government has
said the measures are "appropriate" to the seriousness of the
crime allegedly committed by Salis.
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