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Italian prime minister Roberta Meloni with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán ahead of the EU summit (Photo: kormany.hu)

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Meloni-Orbán: the new EU 'power couple' but for how long?

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni flipped her friendly ties with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán to come out looking like a major power broker at this week's EU summit.

But their friendship is more shallow and brittle than it appeared, while Orbán may ultimately prove a burden to her ambitions, some analysts say.

Meloni's office told Italian media on Thursday (1 February) that she was the "lead player" in getting Orbán to drop his veto on

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Italian prime minister Roberta Meloni with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán ahead of the EU summit (Photo: kormany.hu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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