Weber to meet Orbán in Budapest amid EPP row

 Manfred Weber, the center-right candidate favorite to be the next European Commission president, said that in the coming days he will meeting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest to try to resolve the current dispute between him and the European People’s Party..

A  dispute that could lead to the Hungarian leader being kicked out of the EPP.

In comments to the German paper Welt am Sonntag, Weber said he is seeing positive signs coming out of Budapest, reiterating that the EPP still expects an apology from the Hungarian PM for his recent actions.

Weber’s comments come ahead of a March 20 meeting at which EPP members will decide whether or not to expel the Hungarian prime minster’s Fidesz party from the powerful alliance of center-right parties over Budapest’s anti-migration campaign targeting Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian-American financier George Soros.

 

Via Politico

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