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Editor’s note: The article was updated after Viktor Orban’s office confirmed the arrival in Moscow. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s trip to Kyiv and plans to visit Moscow show that Budapest will take a “creative” approach toward its presidency of the Council of the EU, an expert told the Kyiv Independent on July 5. The presidency’s role is primarily as a mediator among key EU institutions, but Orban’s steps show that he is “playing a different game and using the vacuum while the compositions of these institutions are changing” after the European elections, said Pavel Havlicek, a resear…

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