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EU shuns Budapest meetings, as Hungary's rotating presidency whirls on

4 min read Hungary, Boka, Dobrev, Frieden, Jinping, Magyar, Metsola, michel, Nehammer, Orban, Putin, Schoof, Szijjarto, von der Leyen, Zelenskyy

Despite only starting its EU rotating presidency on 1 July, Hungary has already made it one of the more memorable of these ordinarily uneventful 6-month tenures. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban spent the first week of his presidency on a self-styled “peace mission”, when he visited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,

Orban makes surprise visits to Ukraine, Russia, China on 'mission for peace'

4 min read Hungary, Politics, Ukraine, China, European Commission, European Union, michel, Orban, Putin, Russia, Tusk, von der Leyen

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was accused of mission creep by the international community after he opened his first week hosting the six-month EU rotating presidency with unannounced trips to Kyiv, Moscow and Beijing. Orban’s final destination after a busy week was Washington DC, for the long-planned NATO summit