Focus on Ukraine as foreign ministers meet and US’s Hegseth visits Brussels – Europe live
Meetings come amid repeated suggestions that the Trump administration wants to end the war as soon as possible
And here’s a welcome tweet from Orbán …
There is also one other high-level meeting in Europe today, on the far right, as Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán is hosting the co-leader of the Alternative für Deutschland Alice Weidel to Budapest.
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