EU supports Trump-Putin meet in Budapest if serves peace

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...

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