Fellow EU leaders ridiculed Hungary's Viktor Orbán for meeting Russia's president Vladimir Putin on Friday (5 July), calling it "appeasement".
The European Commission said Orbán's move "seriously put in doubt" if commission president Ursula von der Leyen would visit Budapest, as previously planned, after the summer break, to Get EU news that matters
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.