Germany's conservatives proposed that the EU's center-right grouping s...
BRUSSELS/BERLIN - Germany’s conservatives proposed that the EU’s center-right grouping should suspend, not expel, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party on Wednesday, in a compromise aimed at defusing a bitter row over Budapest’s commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
Orban, a feisty nationalist who has often clashed with the European Union over his anti-immigration campaigns and judicial reforms, was due to attend a meeting of the EPP committee in Brussels on Wednesday that will decide his party’s fate. A membership “freeze” would be an option, added Kramp-Karrenbauer, the frontrunner to eventually replace German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, signaled the prime minister would rather quit the EPP than accept suspension.The decision poses a particular headache for Manfred Weber, the EPP’s lead candidate in May’s European Parliament elections, whose chances of succeeding Juncker as head of the executive Commission would be reduced without the votes of Fidesz’s European lawmakers, of whom there are currently 12.
Sources close to Weber said Orban had at least partially met the German conservative’s conditions for keeping Fidesz in the EPP, including by apologizing to colleagues in the grouping for labeling them immigration-backing “useful idiots”.
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