Hungary PM Orban’s Party Rejects Ultimatum as Pan-European Conservatives Threaten Expulsion

European Culture should be on Suicide Watch

But it seems Hungary's Prime Minister is the only one watching

One thing I should explain here or this story makes no sense. European conservatives in the EU are not real conservatives, but are conservatives in name only. That's why when a real conservative, Orban, appears, they are completely befuddled. If they are protecting Soros, as they appear to be, he has some influence over them and they cannot possibly be real conservatives. Orban should consider inviting the few other real conservatives in the EU to form a new caucus.

Viktor Orban delivers his annual state of the nation speech in Budapest. ©REUTERS / Bernadett Szabo

The European People's Party is threatening to expunge its Hungarian member, the ruling Fidesz, unless its leader stops harassing Brussels and George Soros. The Hungarians have rejected the ultimatum.

The EPP is a “party for parties” uniting national conservative movements into a single entity, which currently has the largest representation in the European Parliament. Many of its members were offended by a campaign launched by the Hungarian government, which links Brussels’ immigration policies with billionaire George Soros, a known advocate of freedom of migration and a highly vilified figure in Hungary.

The campaign launched ahead of the European Parliament elections in May, prompted many EPP members to call for the expulsion of Fidesz from its ranks or at least suspension of its membership.

Manfred Weber, the German MEP, who leads the EPP faction in the European Parliament, told Bild his party had three demands for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which he must meet if he wants to keep his party part of the “EPP family.”

Orban, Weber said, “must immediately and definitively stop his government’s anti-Brussels campaigns,” apologize to other parties that comprise the EPP, and welcome back the Central European University, the Soros-funded organization that stopped all operations in Hungary and moved to Vienna last year under pressure from Orban’s government.

Weber added that if Fidesz is indeed kicked out of the EPP, which may happen as soon as March 20, that should be taken as “Viktor Orban leaving the EPP, not the other way around.”

Responding to the threat, Tamas Deutsch, a co-founder of Fidesz and a serving MEP from Hungary, said he didn’t expect his prime minister to fold.

“This is not a kiddy party, where you pulled on my pony tail and it hurts. Manfred Weber is a lot more serious than that,” he told private television channel ATV.

Deutsch added Fidesz was open for dialogue and saw itself as part of the EPP. Asked about how it would deal with potentially being expelled, he said “one crosses the bridge when one gets there.”

Hungary is the most adamant of EU countries in attempting to prevent its Christian heritage from being overrun with Islamic migrants. Many pseudo-conservative MEPs don't think that is the right way to go. They, along with the left leaning MEPs want to see relatively high levels of Muslim migrants accepted to all EU countries. Weber's Chancellor, Merkel, opened the doors wide in 2015 and now has a huge backlog of migrants building up in Greece and Turkey, and many more crossing the Sahara from the Sahel. 

They just don't seem to get that Muslims don't integrate into European society, they are vulnerable to radicalization, and they propagate way faster than Europeans meaning European culture is already on suicide watch.