Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have cemented closer ties at talks, amid growing EU rifts over sanctions against Moscow because of its meddling in Ukraine.
The Budapest meeting on Thursday with the right-wing Orban – who wants the European Union to lift its punitive measures – was Putin’s first visit to a bloc member since the shock election of US President Donald Trump in November.
Experts said Trump’s ascendancy and the wave of populism… …read more
Source: South China Morning Post
