Trump-Putin Budapest summit would have posed threat to international rule of law and Ukraine’s relations with Hungary

By Marc Roscoe Loustau, Affiliated Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University

The US president, Donald Trump, was expected to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Hungarian capital of Budapest in coming weeks for more talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

However, the summit appears to have been cancelled following a call between the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. The White House gave no reason for the cancellation but some reports suggest…

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