Europe’s future at stake in EP elections, says leftist DK

At stake in next year’s European Parliament elections is the future of the European Union and whether the bloc can be preserved in its current form or “a completely different kind of EU will emerge along lines embraced by Italy’s Matteo Salvini and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán”, an MEP of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) said on Wednesday.

Reacting to Orbán’s Tuesday meeting with the Italian deputy prime minister, Péter Niedermüller told Hungarian journalists in Brussels that

it was a “typical choice” and a “strange sign” from the Hungarian prime minister to discuss the future of Europe with a politician “who opposes the current system” rather than with the likes of German Chancellor Angela Merkel or French President Emmanuel Macron.

He said Orbán owed his European People’s Party group in the EP an explanation as to why he had discussed migration and the EU’s future with a “far-right politician who openly and obviously goes against the EPP and its values”.