EU Cancels Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Budapest Following Orban’s ‘Peace Mission’ to Moscow

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s recent visit to Moscow continues to send shockwaves across Western officialdom.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrives for a meeting at the European Union headquarters in Brussels on June 29, 2023. Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has canceled a planned meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Budapest after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Russia without a mandate from Brussels.

“We have to send a signal [to Budapest], even if it is a symbolic signal,” Mr. Borrell told reporters on July 22.