(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).
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