Several EU finance ministers, as well as ECB President Christine Lagarde and EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, walked out of the G20 ‘Finance’ meeting in Washington, on Wednesday 20 April, in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when their Russian counterpart, Anton Siluanov, took the floor.
The hybrid meeting of the world’s major financial leaders, the first since the outbreak of war in Ukraine at the end of February, focused on the macroeconomic consequences of the war...