Budapest, 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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Budapest, two-thirds of EU governments boycott Ecofin in controversy with Orbán: there are only nine ministers out of 27 (including the Italian Giorgetti)

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…