Washington plans to re-engage with central and eastern Europe to ensure the region does not build closer ties with Beijing and Moscow, Mike Pompeo said in Hungary yesterday.
“America was simply a no-show,” the US secretary of state said, referring to the Obama administration’s policy towards central Europe. “When we’re not here, others will show up.”
In the first visit to Budapest by a US secretary of state since 2011, Mr Pompeo and Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s foreign minister, announced a compromise on a defence co-operation accord that has bedevilled relations between the countries for more than a year. The deal, set to go before Hungary’s parliament next week, will update an existing agreement from 1997.
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