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Whether the prime minister complies could determine whether EPP members decide to eject Orban on Wednesday.

On 12 July, hours after Pope Francis left for Rome following a three-day visit to Paraguay, EPP members ambushed and executed two police officers, killing another three days later.

The decision to suspend Orban rather than expel him, made in a 190-to-3 190-to-3 190-to-3rs, was a measure of his continued clout within the group despite concerns about his rule.

What we failed to understand, is that most EPP members have long given up on the liberal democratic consensus of the postwar era, in which far-right parties and policies are considered unacceptable.

While the majority of EPP members voted to trigger article 7 yesterday, including the bloc's leader Manfred Weber, British Conservative MEPs chose to back Orbán and to call off the procedure.

But the Hungarian leader has also called fellow EPP members "useful idiots" — a remark for which he has since apologized — while the tightly controlled pro-government press has urged him to preemptively ditch the center-right bloc and set out on his own.

So, should leftist governments think they can bulldoze through laws, says one indignant EPP member, "they certainly won't get a warm hearing from us".Second, the EPP itself has shifted decidedly to the right since the 12 French conservatives, from the Gaullist Rally for the Republic and their friends in Liberal Democracy, and the 36 British Conservatives, joined up as full members late last month.

The recent developments in Poland are creating a dilemma for the EPP, as the main opposition party in that country, the PO, is also an EPP member.

Many EPP member parties have entered national coalitions with radical right parties (eg in Austria, Denmark and Italy) or have adopted radical right rhetoric and implemented radical right policies to fight off electoral challenges (eg in France and the Netherlands).

During the plenary debate, Bulgarian EPP member Eva Maydell, the MEP in charge of steering the plans, said the changes will lower transfer fees for 150 million European and six million businesses outside the euro zone.

Swedish EPP Member Anna Maria Corazza Bildt strongly condemned the decision and called on Europe to step in to fill the funding gap, while UK S&D member chair Linda McAvan, chair of the development committee, said: "Cutting this funding does not mean fewer abortions.