Macron says doesn't want Orban-Putin meeting to 'weaken' EU

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he did not want to see Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's meeting this month with Russia's Vladimir Putin "weaken" the EU.

"What I ask ... is that, in the situation we are in vis-a-vis Russia, we do not use these bilateral contacts to negotiate things... which would weaken the unity that is ours," he said after a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels.