Drone sightings reported near Brussels and Liège airports just hours after national security council meeting on the emerging threats

Just to add a word on Orbán’s potential domestic motives for getting closer to Trump…

Close watchers of central eastern European politics will know that there is a precedent for what some experts believe Orbán is trying to achieve here.

Earlier this year, Poland’s Karol Nawrocki was endorsed by Trump in the final weeks of the presidential campaign in May, and repeatedly praised by the US president and his senior administration officials before he unexpectedly won the election in June.

You could see why Orbán would want to emulate that success.