(ANSA-AP) - BUDAPEST, 06 MAR - The party of Hungary's prime
minister says it "cannot yield" to conditions set for it to
remain in the main center-right group in the European
Parliament.
Balazs Hidveghi, communications director of Viktor Orban's
Fidesz party, said Wednesday that "the defense of European
Christian values and stopping migration is more important than
party discipline."
The European People's Party is set to discuss Fidesz's
membership at a meeting on March 20 amid the Orban government's
campaign against EU leaders. Several smaller parties within the
EPP are calling for Fidesz's ouster after years of conflict over
the rule of law, democratic EU values and mass immigration.
Manfred Weber, the EPP candidate to succeed European
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, said that, among other
conditions, Orban should stop the anti-Brussels campaign and
apologize. (ANSA-AP).
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