The Council’s authorized service has informed EU ambassadors this breaches EU treaties, and EU leaders have been fuming about Hungary’s rogue presidency. They’ve struggled, although, to do a lot about it past publicly condemning Budapest’s actions.
One among their responses is to ship decrease rating civil servants as an alternative of ministers to the casual ministers’ conferences Hungary is organizing in Budapest. For instance, the bloc’s international affairs ministers are set to snub Hungary by organizing their very own international affairs summit in August as an alternative of touring to Budapest for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s occasion.
The European Fee is now set to observe the same route. Eric Mamer, the chief spokesperson of the European Fee, confirmed to POLITICO the choice to solely ship senior civil servants to Hungary’s conferences.
Jacopo Barigazzi contributed reporting.