Anger at Hungary's Orbán prompts top EU officials to boycott meetings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Informal meetings of EU ministers will not be attended by EU commissioners, but only by senior officials "in light of recent developments marking the start of the Hungarian presidency," a spokesman for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on the social media platform X.The decision comes after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin just days after Hungary assumed the EU's rotating presidency at the start of July.
34% : Orbán said he was on a "peace mission" but EU leaders strongly condemned the trip and stressed that he did not have an EU mandate for any negotiations.

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