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Hungary Stripped of EU Meetings Over Ukraine Peace Mission

Hungary Stripped of EU Meetings Over Ukraine Peace Mission

Above: High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security and Policy Josep Borrell Fontetlles attends European Council Summit on June 29, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. Image copyright: Pier Marco Tacca/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Facts

  • Josep Borrell, the EU's top diplomat, on Monday moved to rebuke Hungary over its solo attempts at finding peace in Ukraine, announcing that the next set of foreign and defense minister meetings will be held in Brussels rather than Budapest.

  • This comes after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, once his country assumed the rotating EU presidency earlier this month, traveled to meet the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, and China, as well as the US presidential candidate Donald Trump, in an effort to find a negotiated settlement in Ukraine.

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