The European Council delegation of Fidesz has joined the European Conservative Faction and Democratic Alliance (ECR) of the Council of Europe, Zsolt Németh, chairman of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, announced yesterday.
Among others, the dominant force of the faction is the British Conservative Party and the Polish Law and Justice (PiS) party. The ECR, which brings together 70 members of the European Parliament from 15 countries, is currently the third largest group of representatives of the European Parliament.
The move was actually expected, after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently held talks in Budapest with former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League ID (Identity and Democracy) party, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, whose party is Law and Justice he does politics in the ECR.
The only question now is whether the two European Parliament factions, the Conservatives and Reformers (ECR) and the Identity and Democracy (ID) faction, can merge in the future, or whether some kind of cooperation will be established between the two.
The bridge between the two factions is definitely Matteo Salvini and his party colleagues, who are currently sitting in the ID faction.
Katalin Novák, the minister without portfolio responsible for families, explained in an interview with Magyar Nemzet that she sees a serious chance that factions other than the European People's Party can follow the Hungarian example.
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