Earlier in July, six countries — Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland — announced that they would not send their ministers to meetings organized by Hungary as part of its EU Council presidency. That is, these countries will be represented at ministerial meetings, but at the level of civil servants, not ministers. They made such a decision after the visits of Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, to China and Russia. A bit later, Denmark joined this boycott of EU Council meetings during Hungary's presidency, also in protest against Orbán's so-called peace initiatives. Mykhailo Pashkov, co-director of foreign policy and international security programmes at Razumkov Centre, spoke about this live on the FREEDOM TV channel.
Mykhailo Pashkov
Co-Director, Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes
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