Some European Union leaders are protesting what they see as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s misuse of the bloc’s rotating presidency by boycotting a meeting hosted by Hungary.
FILE - Hungary ’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives at an event commemorating the 75th anniversary of NATO at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at the NATO summit in Washington, on July 9, 2024. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a letter to the heads of Europe an Union countries briefing them on his recent set of unannounced foreign visits that angered other leaders in the bloc.
But not all EU members joined the boycott. The energy ministers of Austria, Belgium and Bulgaria attended an informal meeting on energy on Tuesday in Hungary’s capital, with one downplaying the boycott. “We have become used to using the EU institutions, especially against Hungary for political blackmail and pressure,” Gál wrote on the social media site X on Monday. “This is unacceptable and goes against the very essence of European cooperation.”
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