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Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell announced on Monday a boycott of next month’s informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Budapest. “We have to send a signal, even if it’s a symbolic signal,” he said in a press conference after a meeting of EU foreign ministers. The informal meeting, called a Gymnich, will take place in Brussels instead. The boycott was taken in response to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s self-proclaimed “peace mission” to Moscow to end the Ukraine war after Hungary took over the EU’s rotating presidency in July. Top EU officials and fellow leaders have dista…

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