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MEPs want Hungary to be stripped of its right to vote in the EU

MEPs want Hungary to be stripped of its right to vote in the EU

A group of 63 European Parliament lawmakers asked the EU to remove Hungary's voting rights in the bloc, in response to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's recent visits to Moscow and Beijing, Reuters writes . 
Orban met US presidential candidate Donald Trump last week and then traveled to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin and then to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on a "peace mission". self-styled to end the war in Ukraine.

The 63 MEPs addressed the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel and the head of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, saying that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán "has already caused considerable damage by exploiting and abusing the role of The Presidency of the Council".

 

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