Orban postpones EU appearance due to storm

(ANSA-AFP) - BUDAPEST, SEP 16 - Hungarian premier Viktor Orban on Monday said he would postpone all of his "international obligations", including his appearance at the European Parliament, as Storm Boris batters central and eastern Europe.
    The nationalist prime minister was supposed to speak at a Wednesday debate on his country's ongoing six-month rotating EU Presidency, embroiled in controversy. "Due to the extreme weather conditions and the ongoing floods... I have postponed all my international obligations," Orban said on X, formerly Twitter. In a Facebook video, he said he would not leave the country until authorities "get through the worst". Hungary's General Directorate of Water Management predicted that the river Danube will reach its peak in Budapest at the end of this week.
    (ANSA-AFP).