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The president of the European People’s Party, Donald Tusk, has not accepted the proposal to provide collective support for Boyko Borissov, Politico reports, BGNES reports.
At a meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP) on Wednesday, Hungarian Fidesz MEP Tamas Deutsch expressed his solidarity with the GERB party of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, which also belongs to the EPP family.
Deutsch asked the other members of the group to be more convincing and to commit to supporting GERB. Criticism of Borissov, according to the Hungarian MEP, should provoke a collective defense. The implication of his statement is almost transparent: the same should have happened in the case of Hungary, which has been criticized for a number of policies of its prime minister Viktor Orban. However, the curious thing about yesterday’s meeting is that, according to Politico, Donald Tusk did not agree with Deutsch’s arguments. Tusk became president of the EPP at the end of last year.
The EPP’s discussions on the crisis in Bulgaria took place on the eve of today’s meeting of the European Commissioner for Values and Transparency, Vera Yourova, with the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. The meeting will discuss the EU’s monitoring of the judiciary in Romania and Bulgaria. Last month, more than 50 MEPs, mostly Socialists and Democrats and Greens, sent questions to the commission, expressing concern about “an imminent threat to the rule of law and democracy in Bulgaria.”
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