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Deputy leader: Fidesz is all for a strong European People’s Party
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Fidesz is all for a strong European People’s Party and the EPP needs a strong Fidesz, Katalin Novák, the ruling party’s deputy leader, said after Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected as German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor as head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Both the EPP and Fidesz have mutual interest when it comes to campaigning in next year’s European parliamentary elections, Novák told MTI by phone late on Friday from the CDU congress.
The Hungarian government wants to preserve the security of Hungary and central Europe, she said.
Novák said the policies of both Fidesz and the CDU were based on the same Christian Democratic values, embracing a strong family policy rather than immigration as a way of addressing demographic and labour issues.
Meanwhile, the Fidesz deputy leader said it was important that Hungarians felt the advantages of European Union membership, the free movement of workers and the single market.