European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker has said Viktor Orban’s political party does not belong in his center-right EPP group. Orban’s party has accused Juncker and the EU of purposely weakening Hungary’s borders.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s political party no longer belongs in the center-right EPP grouping in the European Parliament, European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday.
Juncker was responding to a political poster by Orban’s Fidesz party that accuses the EC chief of working with the billionaire philanthropist George Soros to allow more migrants into Hungary.
“Against lies there’s not much you can do,” Juncker said. He added that the head of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, should consider “if I need this voice” in the grouping.
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