'No place for war criminals': EU foreign ministers walk fine line on Trump-Putin summit in Budapest

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'No place for war criminals': EU foreign ministers walk fine line on Trump-Putin summit in Budapest  The prospect of the Russian president, who is wanted by the ICC for war crimes, entering EU territory loomed over a meeting of foreign affairs ministers on Monday.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/10/20/no-place-for-war-criminals-eu-foreing-ministers-walk-fine-line-on-trump-putin-summit-in-bu  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00European diplomacy is on a knife edge regarding the announced summit between the American and

00:07Russian presidents scheduled to take place in Budapest. Upon their arrival in Luxembourg on

00:13Monday, the European Union's foreign ministers expressed their hope that the meeting between

00:18Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would bring an end to the war in Ukraine. However, the location

00:23of this meeting poses a problem. The controversy stems from the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister

00:39Viktor Orban disagrees with the majority of the EU on the war in Ukraine. In addition,

00:44the Russian president is under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.

00:49No, it's not nice. I mean, to see that really a person put to the arrest warrant by the ICC is

01:02coming to a European country. And again, you know, the question is whether there is any outcome out

01:09of this. To enable this meeting to take place, EU member states will have to open their airspace,

01:15which has been closed to Russian aircraft since 2022. However, diplomatic exemptions are possible.

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