Politician: Tusk has not accepted the idea of ​​supporting Borissov – World

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The president of the European People’s Party (EPP), Donald Tusk, has not accepted a proposal to provide collective support for Boyko Borissov in the party, reports the Brussels Politico edition.

At yesterday’s EPP meeting, Tamas Deutsch, a member of parliament for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, expressed his solidarity with the ruling GERB of Bulgaria, who belongs to the same political family. According to Deutsch, the other members of the group should also be more convincing and committed to supporting GERB, and criticism of the prime minister and party leader, Boyko Borissov, should lead to a “collective defense”.

However, Tusk reacted negatively to the words of Deutsch, who believes that this should have happened to his own party (due to the actions of the authorities in Budapest, the EPP decided to freeze its membership).

“Tusk did not agree,” Politico wrote in a note titled EPP no to NATO in a briefing ahead of today’s debate in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) with the vice-president. from the European Commission, Vera Yourova. . The topic was the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism applied to Bulgaria and Romania, and the EPP meeting was a day earlier.

There is a lot of criticism from the EPP (and the European Commission) from other groups that because GERB belongs to the largest political family in the EU, European representatives react sparingly to what is happening in Bulgaria.