The eurosceptic and anti-immigration Hungarian leader has been accused of regularly breaching the rules of the European Union and targeting senior EPP members with his provocative speeches and anti-EU billboards. And today the 260 members of the EPP, a grouping including representatives from Angela Merkel’s CDU, Spain’s People’s Party and France’s The Republicans, will vote on whether to expel or suspend Fidesz's membership. Mr Orban will be given the right to defend himself in person at today’s meeting, according to Hungarian media.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, also known as AKK, who became Germany’s CDU leader in late 2018, advocated a membership “freeze” for Mr Orban’s party, to last until trust between Budapest and Brussels was rebuilt.
She said: "As long as Fidesz does not fully restore trust there cannot be normal full membership.”
Conservative European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker took a harsher position and advised the coalition to expel Fidesz.
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Viktor Orban's party Fidesz may be kicked out from the EPP today (Image: GETTY)
He had already argued earlier this year the party doesn’t “represent Christian democratic values”.
He said: “The conservatives in Hungary in no way whatsoever represent Christian democratic values.
“I’m of the
