Finland's Stubb Tells Europe to Pick Between Putin and Democracy
Stubb's words at a conference on Thursday in Helsinki appeared pointed at a number of European countries where a nationalist lurch is eroding support for Ukraine. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico have in particular courted President Vladimir Putin, threatening Europe's united approach to his full-scale war on Ukraine.
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