October 29, 2025 – Editorial
by Francesco Sylos Labini

According to Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, his European counterparts “are in a state of militarist psychosis (…) and the European Union does not seem interested in the possibility that the Budapest peace summit, proposed by Trump and Putin, could actually lead to peace. Judging by today’s speeches,” he added, “I must conclude that a significant number of European politicians will do everything — even the impossible — to prevent this summit from taking place at all.”

We have thus arrived at a paradoxical situation: European leaders are not merely opposing a specific peace plan, but even the very idea that the presidents of the world’s two leading nuclear powers could meet to seek a path toward dialogue.