BRUSSELS: The European Commission said Friday it welcomes a meeting in Budapest between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin if it can help end the Ukraine war. Spokespeople said that the EU had to be pragmatic and back any steps that might lead to peace in Ukraine — even though Putin is wanted under an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for alleged war crimes. “We live in the real world,” commission spokesman Olof Gill told reporters. “Meetings don’t always happen in the precise order or format that we would like them to, but if meetings...

BRUSSELS: The European Commission said Friday it welcomes a meeting in Budapest between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin if it can help end the Ukraine war.…

"By choosing Budapest as the venue for the planned meeting with Russian President Putin, US President Trump expressed that he is closer to Hungary's peace policy than the pro-war…