Orbán, who met Trump at Mar-aLago last week, said in his letter to the president of the European Council, who organises meetings of the bloc's 27 national leaders, that the Republican presidential nominee was ready to act as peace broker "immediately" after his election.
The "likely outcome" of a Trump victory meant that the EU should reopen "direct lines of diplomatic communication" with Russia and "high-level political talks" with China, Orbán wrote in the letter, addressed to the council's president, Charles Michel, which was first reported by the Financial Times. The Guardian has seen a copy.
Orbán said Trump's likely victory would mean that the financial burden of supporting Ukraine's war effort would shift.
"I am more than convinced that in the likely outcome of the victory of President Trump, the proportion of the financial burden between the US and the EU will significantly change to the EU's disadvantage when it comes to the financial support of Ukraine," he wrote.
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