EU business is gradually waking up from its summer slumber this week. As usual, the foreign ministers will kick things off, with Annalena Baerbock and her colleagues meeting for an informal Council in Brussels on Thursday. As is well known, Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell had postponed the Gymnich meeting, which was originally planned for Budapest, out of anger at Viktor Orbán’s high-handed „peace mission“. On Friday, it will be the turn of the defense ministers, with Boris Pistorius being represented by his Parliamentary State Secretary Thomas Hitschler.