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Hungarian Press Roundup: EPP Punishes Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch
Hungarian press roundup by budapost.eu
Background information: on Wednesday night, the People’s Party group of the European Parliament decided to withdraw Tamás Deutsch’s right to speak on behalf of the group or be elected to any post within the European Parliament. 40 MEPs originally proposed his expulsion, for using what they deemed offensive language towards the leader of the group, Manfred Weber. Weber had commented that if Hungary was not in breach of EU norms, it didn’t have to fear the rule of law conditionality of EU payments. Deutsch then retorted that this was the kind of argument once used by the Communist-era political police and the Gestapo, and which then led to innocent people ending up in jail. Deutsch has twice apologised to Weber, and the expulsion motion was eventually not put to a vote.