The leader of the main center-right party in the European Parliament, Manfred We...
FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, February 10, 2019. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo
Orban said on Friday his nationalist Fidesz party may leave the conservative group, the European People’s Party , over a row about anti-EU election campaigning. “In the coming days, I will again try to talk personally to Viktor Orban in Budapest, because I want to try to make clear to him that at the moment he is on the way out of the EPP,” Weber told German weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
Orban has long been at loggerheads with Brussels over his hardline stance on immigration and accusations - which he denies - that he is undermining the rule of law. The feud is escalating ahead of the European elections.
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