Hungary’s Orban Mulls New EU Movement if His Party Exits EPP
- Decision will follow meetings with EU leaders in coming days
- Premier is pushing for EU’s biggest party to be less liberal
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he’s ready to start a new political platform in Europe if his Fidesz party is forced out of the European People’s Party, the continent’s biggest such group.
Orban has repeatedly threatened to preemptively withdraw from the center-right alliance within the European Union, which has suspended Fidesz while it evaluates its actions to undercut democracy. Orban said Thursday that a decision will be taken after meetings in the coming days with EPP President Donald Tusk, the head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, an influential EPP member.