In a letter to the parties which want to exclude his governing party Fidesz to the european partigruppen EPP, writes Orbán that he wants to ”apologise if you felt that my quotes were personally offensive”.
the Letter was sent to the leaders of the thirteen parties who have said they want to exclude Orbán’s party Fidesz from the EPP – the umbrella organisation which gathers Europe’s conservative and christian democratic parties and constitutes the largest group in the EUROPEAN parliament.
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the Conflict between Orbán’s Fidesz and the EPP blew up after the party’s election campaign at home. The party accused, inter alia, the EU commission president Jean Claude Juncker to endanger Hungary’s security and want to force the country to accept immigrants, which the UNION denies. The campaign led to the several parties wanted to exclude Fidesz from the EPP, including the Swedish M and KD are included in the.
The belgian journalist Rob Heirbaut tweeted during the Thursday out Orbán’s apology to the belgian politician Wouter Beke.
https://twitter.com/heirbar/status/1106138983816486912?s=20
and the captain of the EPP Manfred Weber, on Tuesday, was brought, however, a hope to remain in the EPP if the Orbán met the three requirements, including the to ask the EPP members on the excuse that he called them ”useful idiots”, a quote from Lenin, which He claims aimed to criticize a particular policy, and not individual politicians.
Orban and Fideszs future within the EPP will be determined on march 20.
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