STRASBOURG: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday savaged a rogue diplomatic trip Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made to Moscow to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine as an “appeasement mission”.

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“This so-called peace mission was nothing but an appeasement mission – this was a plain appeasement mission,” she told the European Parliament in a sharp rebuke for Orban, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.