US EditionBudapest, two-thirds of EU governments boycott Ecofin in controversy with Orbán: there are only nine ministers out of 27 (including the Italian Giorgetti)
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Nine out of 27 countries represented, just a third. The majority of EU states choose to boycott the Ecofin in Budapest in controversy with the current Prime Minister, the Hungarian Viktor Orbán, who at the beginning of July (on the eve of the beginning of the term of office) went to Moscow to visit the Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, the first European leader to do so after the invasion of Ukraine. Thus, only nine appear at the top of the Minis…
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, was also present
A two-day meeting of EU finance ministers starts today in Hungary. A maximum of ten of the 27 ministers will attend the informal meeting in Budapest. This was the result of a survey by the German Press Agency. Federal Minister of Finance Lindner explained his absence with the budget discussions in Berlin.
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Hungary continues to be boycotted. The meeting in Budapest takes place in the absence of the relevant commissioners.
Only a third of the finance ministers of the European Union (EU) member states will attend the informal meeting of the Eurogroup in Budapest on Friday, according to the estimates of the DPA agency.
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