Top EU diplomat calls rival meeting in response to Hungary’s rogue diplomacy

Subscribe here: bit.ly/eudebates The EU’s most senior diplomat, Josep Borrell, has called a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers in Brussels - in effect a boycott of a rival gathering in Budapest - to register widespread anger over Hungary’s rogue diplomacy.
Borrell announced that he had decided to convene informal meetings of EU foreign affairs and defence ministers in Brussels after the summer break, meaning the same participants will not gather in Budapest as originally planned.
At Monday’s foreign ministers’ meeting “EU member states overwhelmingly criticised Hungary’s lack of sincere and loyal cooperation”, Borrell wrote on X, as he announced the decision.
Hungary, which took over the EU’s rotating presidency on 1 July, has infuriated other EU leaders, with prime minister Viktor Orbán’s self-styled “peace missions” to Moscow and Beijing and talks with the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The informal meeting of foreign ministers scheduled to take place in Budapest at the end of August will instead be held in Brussels.
Josep Borrell delivered on Monday a blistering rebuke against Viktor Orbán and his self-described "peace mission," which saw the Hungarian premier travel to Moscow and meet with Vladimir Putin to discuss possible ways to end the war in Ukraine.
The tour, which also featured an equally controversial stop in Beijing to meet Xi Jinping, took place earlier this month, coinciding with the start of Hungary's six-month presidency of the Council of the EU, but continues to send shockwaves across the bloc.
"Russia is the aggressor in violation of the United Nations Charter and Ukraine, the victim, exercising its fundamental rights to self-defence and there's nothing of hysteria about that, it's just telling the truth," Borrell said after a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
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