Hungary PM apologises for 'useful idiots' remark

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has apologised to European conservative parties for calling them 'useful idiots' over an anti-EU billboard ...

BUDAPEST: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has apologised to European conservative parties for calling them"useful idiots" over an anti-EU billboard campaign that could see his party ejected from the European Parliament's centre-right EPP bloc.

"I would hereby like to express my apologies, if you found my quote personally offensive," Orban said in his letter to the Belgian Christian Democratic & Flemish party which was published by the De Standaard newspaper. While Fidesz"does not wish to change our own position... on the issue of migration, the protection of Christian culture and the future of Europe" disagreements should not be solved by expelling a party from our political family," he said.

Similar messages have appeared on television and internet wesbites while Orban has also sent letters to households nationwide that attack Juncker.

 

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