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The EU cannot be found at offices in Brussels, Luxembourg or Strasbourg but rather in the history and in the spirit of the peoples of which it is composed. If Europe rejects its nations, she will lose her soul.

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Fidesz should agree with EPP mainstream or be ejected, says Juncker

Europe's biggest political grouping, the European People's Party, is facing a reckoning over the membership of Hungary's ruling party Fidesz.

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Donald Tusk lands new job trying to revive Europe's centre-right

The outgoing EU Council President and former Polish prime minister will try and turn around the fortunes of the EPP grouping.

Austria

EPP's Manfred Weber in Austria for rally ahead of European elections

European People's Party leader Manfred Weber was in Austria in the run up to European parliamentary elections to try to bolster unity within his party

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EPP candidate Manfred Weber outlines vision in race to EC presidency

Manfred Weber, the European People's Party candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission President, outlines his European vision

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Orban meets Weber in Budapest on Tuesday

Crisis meeting to avoid further escalation with Hungary's ruling Fidesz party

Hungary

Orban says Fidesz may leave EPP as party faces expulsion

"Obviously if we have to start something new, then the first place where we'll start negotiations will be Poland," Orban said on Friday.

World

Raw Politics in full: Women's week and Orban vs. 'useful idiots'

Kickstart the week with Monday's episode of Raw Politics.

Europe News

The Brief: Political family feud, diplomatic defiance and hacking exposed

In this edition: political infighting between Hungary's Orban and the EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker threatens to poison the European parliament's largest political grouping ahead of May's elections and Microsoft exposed potential Russia-linked hacking of European think-tanks.

Belgium

'Bitter irony': MEPs want secret ballot for transparency vote

Centre-right MEPs have been criticised for allegedly requesting a secret ballot for a vote on… transparency.

Hungary

European People's Party blocks critics of Viktor Orban on Twitter

The Twitter account of the European People's Party, the party with the biggest faction in the European Parliament, blocked the accounts of two critics of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the weekend