Weber’s 180 turn on border control is another clear-cut case of Brussels’ hypocrisy
EPP President Manfred Weber advocates for stricter border control and fences after years of undermining member states for doing the same.
EPP President Manfred Weber advocates for stricter border control and fences after years of undermining member states for doing the same.
"Clearly, Manfred Weber resents Hungary. He blames us for his failure to become the president of the European Commission," the prime minister said.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has responded to comments made by Manfred Weber, the group leader of the European People's Party, concerning the EU's planned rule of law mechanism.
EPP group leader Manfred Weber stated in an online press conference on December 3 that the notorious rule of law mechanism, designed to force Member States into altering their stance...
Péter Szijjártó said Hungary will only support candidates who have respect toward European nations, take up the cause of protecting Christian culture and stand for stopping migration rather than supporting it.
The Prime Minister said the Hungarian people did not want Manfred Weber or Frans Timmermans leading the European Union.
Citizens of the V4 countries feel equally skeptical about EPP candidate Manfred Weber and the socialist Frans Timmermans, reveals a recently-conducted survey by the Nezopont Institute.
Zoltán Kovács said Weber had repeatedly offended Hungarians over the past few months while Timmermans “has been in effect lying non-stop” about Hungary during the EP election campaign.
“I do everything for the success of EPP. I want the EPP to win the European elections,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview published this morning in the German daily Bild, adding that he’d rather that the European People’s Party didn’t “tie its fate to the political left,” to a bloc that “represents things that destroy Europe.”
“For us, Group Leader Weber would have also been a good Commission president,” Prime Minister Orbán said at the press conference yesterday, “but [Weber] announced that not only does he not need the Hungarian votes but he does not want to become Commission president with the support of Hungarian votes.”
PM Orbán said “Hungary’s government and its head” cannot be in the position to support a European Commission presidential candidate who has announced that he does not want the vote of Hungarians
The Minister said that Fidesz will only be able to stay in the European People's Party if on Wednesday not only is it not expelled from the party grouping, but also if its membership is not suspended.
On Monday Gergely Gulyás, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, told Hungarian news agency MTI that Fidesz wants a strong, united Christian democratic European People’s Party (EPP) which rejects immigration. He said that Fidesz wants to remain a member of the party family for as long as possible, and also stressed that Fidesz has always avoided personal attacks on other members of the party family it belongs to.