Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party was suspended amid concerns that it has violated EU principles on the rule of law
Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban addresses a news conference at the end of a European People's Party meeting at the European Parliament, in Brussels, on March 20, 2019.The European Parliament’s main centre-right grouping voted on Wednesday to suspend Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz Party until further notice amid concerns that it has violated EU principles on the rule of law.
Orban, a feisty nationalist who has often clashed with the European Union over his anti-immigration campaigns and judicial reforms, told the EPP delegates that his party could not accept that proposal. The head of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, and 13 sister parties in the EPP have called for Fidesz’s expulsion, but Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of Germany’s Christian Democrats, proposed a compromise ahead of the meeting.
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