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Euroviews. The EPP must ditch Orbán to salvage its credibility ǀ View
The enfant terrible of the EPP, Viktor Orbán has consistently crossed red lines set out by the Europarty. In order to salvage what remains of its credibility and stick up for the EU's core values, the EPP must cut ties with the Hungarian autocrat before it is too late.
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The Brief: EPP family feud, Nemmouche trial and Huawei in Brussels
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his party are facing exclusion from the Europe's largest political group after months of anti-EU rhetoric.
The centre-right European People's Party has started the process which would remove him and his Fidesz party from the group.
Hungary
Euroviews. I knew Orbán when he started his political journey; where it’s taken him terrifies me ǀ View
Kis, the philosopher and first chairman of the true liberal party in post-1989 Hungary (the Free Democrats), described Orbán as a “spoilt kid” because he was almost sick with a desperation for power. That sickness which has already infected the country must not be allowed to spread to Europe.
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The Brief: Political family feud, diplomatic defiance and hacking exposed
In this edition: political infighting between Hungary's Orban and the EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker threatens to poison the European parliament's largest political grouping ahead of May's elections and Microsoft exposed potential Russia-linked hacking of European think-tanks.