{"id":198442,"date":"2026-03-24T07:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/hungarian-foreign-minister-admits-calling-russias-lavrov-during-key-eu-meetings\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:48:59","slug":"hungarian-foreign-minister-admits-calling-russias-lavrov-during-key-eu-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/hungarian-foreign-minister-admits-calling-russias-lavrov-during-key-eu-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian foreign minister admits calling Russia&#8217;s Lavrov during key EU meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian FM P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 has confirmed he regularly contacts Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov during private EU meetings following<br \/>\nreports alleging routine communication during breaks in Brussels meetings. Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said talking to other partners is the essence of diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/03\/24\/hungarys-foreign-minister-admits-calling-lavrov-during-key-eu-meetings\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian FM P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 has confirmed he regularly contacts Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov during private EU meetings following reports alleging routine communication during breaks in Brussels meetings. Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said talking to other partners is the essence of diplomacy. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":198443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}