EU Nations Push to Censure Hungary’s Orban Over Putin Meeting
- Hungary’s premier angered allies with trips to Moscow, Beijing
- EU leaders accuse Orban of exploiting six-month presidency
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 5.
Photographer: Valery Sharifulin/Sputnik/AFP/Getty ImagesHalf a dozen European Union countries are looking at ways to censure Hungary after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s freewheeling diplomacy took him on visits to Russia, Ukraine and Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
Ministers from Sweden, Finland, Poland and three Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will skip informal meetings in Hungary during the first phase of its six-month EU presidency this summer, according to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. His government will send lower-level officials instead.