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Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Marc Loustau, Affiliated Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, says that Monday's meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban 'did not produce the kind of movement that Orban would like to have had before the April elections' because US President Donald Trump 'is not very good at following up on his promises'.

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