Renew Europe calls on European Council to stop Hungary’s ongoing presidency – Europe live
‘It is time to rein in Viktor Orbán’s rogue presidency of the Council,’ says president of liberal group after Orbán visits Putin in Moscow

The head of the liberal Renew Europe group has called on the European Council to explore all means to stop Hungary’s ongoing presidency of the Council of the EU.
Hungary took over the rotating presidency on 1 July for a period of six months, but has the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has already fuelled controversy with a trip to visit Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Valérie Hayer, the president of Renew Europe and an ally of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said today that “the Hungarian prime minister is undermining positions adopted by the European Union and acting contrary to our interests and it has to stop.”
“It is time to rein in Viktor Orbán’s rogue presidency of the Council.,” she said.