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After loudly demanding more oversight of the EU’s €300bn Global Gateway scheme, national ministers are now skipping its own board meetings. “It's a major part of the budget, but it's not really understood,” said the Irish liberal MEP Barry Andrews, who chairs the parliament’s development committee.