The European Parliament’s biggest political group is divided over how to deal with the hard-line positions taken by its affiliates in Eastern Europe on the migration crisis.
Members of the center-right European People’s Party are split over whether Hungary’s ruling party Fidesz should be evicted for what some consider the authoritarian policies of its leader Viktor Orbán — or lauded for advocating stronger border patrols.
The EPP is not alone in having an Eastern European problem: its center-left rivals, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats, include Slovakia’s SMER, whose leader Prime Minister Robert Fico has said his country was “built for …read more
Source: European Voice
